My company is a Novell customer. We use eDirectory\Sles9\Oes. All the people from Novell I talk to give me the same company line about how good the Novell\MS deal is for the customer and interoperability. I've been holding judgement on it. 
<br>The other day a Novell sales rep said this to me:<br><font face="Dialog" size="4"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Dialog;">"&nbsp;MS 
has realized that Linux is key in the Business Enterprise and is now a viable 
and solid alternative to Windows." <br><br></span></font>Knowing how much MS cares about the enterprise environment I&#39;m starting to think that MS is going to buy Novell.<br>Anybody else thinking this?<br><br><font face="Dialog" size="2">
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