What’s more — what looked like a David-Goliath battle between Microsoft and Linux now has Goliath crossing over to David’s side. It started with the Microsoft’s alliance with Novell, and its attention-grabbing presence at the recently-held Linux Asia in New Delhi. While Linux distributors such as Red Hat and Novell see it as a sign of acknowledgment that “Linux is now a mature technology”, Microsoft contends that it has customers that have servers running on different operating systems and with interoperability becoming an issue, it had to step in to solve the problem for them.
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