Dell joins Microsoft, Novell in Linux collaboration
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Dell is backing the Windows-Linux partnership set up by Microsoft and Novell. As part of the deal, Dell will buy Suse Linux Enterprise Server certificates from Microsoft for corporate customers that are not already using Linux, the computer maker said Monday.
Under terms of the agreement, Dell established a customer marketing team for Suse Linux Enterprise to target “Linux users who are not Dell Linux customers,” the statement said. That qualification is key: Dell already offers a competing version of Linux from Red Hat to corporate customers, and existing customers will presumably not be targeted by the new marketing effort.
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