our newest Ally ...Microsoft?

[carlosponti]

http://online.wsj.com/public/article...html?mod=blogs

[techieMoe]

Hmm. Intriguing. It's a little early for April Fool's, so I'm curious where this one will go. Good find.

[carlosponti]

quite a turn for them after all the rhetoric about IP rights and litigation that open source invites.

[techieMoe]

I'm still awaiting confirmation from another news site. Things like this sometimes have a tendency to be retracted, saying "We are sorry but the representative from Microsoft was misquoted. What we meant to say was....<insert some non-news statement here>"

[carlosponti]

so far there is not a conference yet however found another article from reuters

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061102/...soft_novell_dc

[bigtomrodney]

Well I can't say I saw that one coming. Awaiting confirmation.

[techieMoe]

Well I can't say I saw that one coming. Awaiting confirmation.

Likewise. Out of left field for me.

[smolloy]

Looks like the conference is on in San Francisco at 14:00 Pacific time (22:00 GMT).

This could be interesting...

[easuter]

Personaly I take anything that MS says (if they realy did mean to say this) with a pinch (or bag) of salt...

[carlosponti]

http://www.novell.com/linux/microsoft/webcast.html

i will say this is strictly in the business environments. i doubt you will see that kind of cooperation in the desktop market.