Hard to believe that the former sparring partners are now announcing a joint venture. Microsoft and Novell are teaming up in the product development arena and are working towards interoperability between MS Active Directory and Novell’s eDirectory. Interesting times.

Microsoft, Novell add detail to technology partnership
Deni Connor

March 13, 2007 (Network World) — Microsoft and Novell Monday announced more details about their joint development of products in the virtualization, directory and identity management and document format areas.

The two will focus on developing a virtualization package for Linux and Windows servers that lets customers run SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 as a guest operating system on Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 R2 service pack 1 and on the next version of Microsoft Windows Server, codenamed Longhorn. It will also let customers run Longhorn as a guest operating system on SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 10, using the Xen virtualization technology.

These virtualization features will be released throughout this year.

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