Novell's press release on partnership with Microsoft

Here is Novell's press release on its deal with Microsoft. There are a number of aspects to it, including joint marketing of products, the establishment of a shared research facility to work on topics like virtualization and document formats, and a patent deal: "As part of this agreement, Microsoft will provide a covenant not to assert its patent rights against customers who have purchased SUSE Linux Enterprise Server or other covered products from Novell, and Novell will provide an identical covenant to customers who have a licensed version of Windows or other covered products from Microsoft."

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