Submission + - Take Microsoft's Linux money, says Red Hat
Robert writes: Red Hat CEO has said the company is encouraging customers to adopt Microsoft's offer of
support vouchers for Novell's rival Linux operating system in order to get the issue over
with. Speaking at the Merrill Lynch internet, software and services conference, Red Hat's
CEO, Matthew Szulik, dismissed the impact that deal has had on it's business. "I
think that there has been a strong amount of external communication by Microsoft and
Novell on this topic," he said. "We certainly expect that there will be those
cases where customers will consume those coupons. We're
certainly encouraging one or two customers to consume all of them, let's get this over
with."
