Microsoft and Novell: Harmony or Heartache? (NewsFactor)

16th Nov 2006, 12:24 GMT

NewsFactor - Microsoft and Novell sent tremors through the open-source world -- and much of the business software market -- when they announced a deal to make Windows and SuSE Linux work better together. Some compared the deal to Nixon's landmark trip to China, then one of America's two arch-rivals; others wondered whether the pact was as bad an event as Watergate.