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Microsoft and Novell open shared lab

The Microsoft/Novell deal rolls forward with this announcement of the opening of a shared "interoperability lab". "Located in Cambridge, the 2,500-square-foot lab and workspace will be home to a combined team of the best and brightest Microsoft and Novell engineers focused on making Windows Server and SUSE Linux Enterprise work better together. The first priority for the lab team will be to ensure interoperability between Microsoft and Novell virtualization technologies. Additional work will include standards-based systems management, identity federation and compatibility of office document formats."
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Microsoft and Novell open shared lab

Posted Sep 12, 2007 23:33 UTC (Wed) by endecotp (guest, #36428) [Link]

> Located in Cambridge

That's Cambridge MASS, in case anyone was wondering....

Microsoft and Novell open shared lab

Posted Sep 13, 2007 7:21 UTC (Thu) by rvfh (subscriber, #31018) [Link]

I was indeed! Thanks.

Microsoft and Novell open shared lab

Posted Sep 13, 2007 0:44 UTC (Thu) by allesfresser (subscriber, #216) [Link]

Right on FSF's home turf, eh? Interesting...

Microsoft and Novell open shared lab

Posted Sep 13, 2007 1:09 UTC (Thu) by pjdc (subscriber, #6906) [Link]

It's West Side Story all over again.

Microsoft and Novell open shared lab

Posted Sep 13, 2007 1:35 UTC (Thu) by ChooseOpen (guest, #47345) [Link]

"the 2,500-square-foot lab and workspace will be home to a combined team of the best and brightest Microsoft and Novell engineers"

Thats it? 2,500 sq feet isn't much room....especially when they are sharing that space with 80 servers. I wonder how many engineers from Microsoft and from Novell will be packed in to that space.

Microsoft and Novell open shared lab

Posted Sep 13, 2007 4:33 UTC (Thu) by AJWM (guest, #15888) [Link]

> I wonder how many engineers from Microsoft and from Novell will be packed in to that space.

From something I saw elsewhere on the web, a total of eight. (Four each?)

Microsoft and Novell open shared lab

Posted Sep 13, 2007 17:02 UTC (Thu) by sjj (subscriber, #2020) [Link]

Microsoft being Microsoft, their team will be: one manager, one project manager, one intern, and one developer.

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