SERVER VIRTUALIZATION: For Windows/Linux interoperability, Novell, Microsoft operating systems now share the same space

摘要

Microsoft and Novell - long considered the bitterest of rivals - are cooperating on an initiative that will make it easy for enterprises to run both Windows and the SUSE Linux operating systems on a single server. This effort is part of a broad-ranging agreement to promote Windows and Linux interoperability that the two vendors reached last November. Justin Steinman, Novell's director of product marketing for Linux, says the agreement has resulted in significant progress on the virtualization front, and further breakthroughs are expected when Microsoft releases the next version of its operating system, currently named Longhorn.