Customers and Partners Respond to Microsoft and Novell Collaboration: November 2006

Skim the quotes on the page referenced below to get a sense of what the deal is likely to mean to real-world customers. 

“The City of Seattle’s IT staff supports a number of different operating environments, including Microsoft Windows^®, Novell NetWare and several varieties of UNIX/Linux. All these environments require separate physical servers, and our data center is running out of space. This new Microsoft and Novell collaboration agreement could allow significant virtualization of servers, reducing the number of physical platforms we’d have to maintain. That, in turn, reduces costs for maintenance, electricity, cooling and space, saving taxpayer dollars, and helping improve stewardship of the environment.

Source: Customers and Partners Respond to Microsoft and Novell Collaboration: November 2006