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Microsoft, Novell Continue To Cozy Up

Cuddly, cuddly! What a week for former Microsoft rivals to nuzzle up to Redmond. Still-new friend Novell is teaming with Microsoft to open an interoperability lab in Cambridge, Mass. (perhaps America's smartest city), and there are new customers for the infamous Microsoft-Novell Linux deal, too.

Posted by Lee Pender on September 13, 2007


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