Microsoft-Novell Relationship Hits the Skids

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Friday March 13, 2009 @09:43AM from the what-your-community-told-you-long-ago dept.

Anonymous writes "According to Channelweb, the bloom might be off the rose in the Novell-Microsoft relationship: the two companies didn't sign a single, solitary large customer to a Novell Linux deal during the most recent quarter. 'So Novell, one of the biggest Linux distributors in the world, and Microsoft, one of the biggest companies in world history, couldn't find a single large customer on Planet Earth to buy into Novell's Suse Linux Enterprise Server software. Novell CEO Ron Hovsepian has stepped up and, rather than point fingers at Microsoft for that performance, put the blame on his company and its inability to strengthen its reseller channel.'"

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Re:Well, seriously... by Cassini2 · 2009-03-13 13:43 · Score: 4, Interesting

Novell should have already known the don't be a Microsoft Partner lesson. Novell owned WordPerfect when Windows 95 came out. Microsoft gave so much incorrect documentation to the WordPerfect developers, that the lawsuit was still going on 13 years later. In fact, the lawsuit on-going when Novell signed the Linux deal with Microsoft.