Article: DELL BLESSES MICROSOFT, NOVELL PACT, STILL WEARS RED HAT.(Business)

Byline: TODD BISHOP P-I reporter

MICROSOFT AND NOVELL, seeking to build industry support for their unusual alliance, have signed up Dell as the first computer maker to formally back the deal.

Dell says it will market Novell's Suse Enterprise Linux Server to business customers based on terms of the pact struck between Microsoft and Novell last year. Dell says it was won over by their plans to make Windows and Linux work more smoothly together, and by their promises not to pursue claims against each other's users for patent infringement.

Those provisions of the Microsoft-Novell pact "resonate very strongly with our customers," said Rick Becker, ...

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