Microsoft To Buy $100M More SUSE Support Vouchers 157
CWmike writes "Microsoft will buy and resell up to another $100 million worth of enterprise support subscriptions for Novell's SUSE Linux Enterprise Server operating system. Two years ago, Microsoft agreed to buy and resell $240 million worth of the vouchers. Susan Hauser, general manager of strategic partnerships and licensing at Microsoft, confirmed that some of the subscription vouchers were sold to customers for less than face value, though none were given away for free."
Why? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Why? (Score:5, Funny)
Why would you buy Linux support from MS? You would think you'd get better support buying it from, oh, a lemonade stand perhaps?
Because Microsoft is know for excellent support?
Don't you get it? (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Can anyone clarify? (Score:4, Funny)
It seems more like the dubious world of high finance and banking than anything high tech. Microsoft is buying and selling Linux vouchers? Well they could just as easily be selling Indulgences [wikipedia.org].
And BTW my eyes happened to glance at the top of Slashdot, I thought it read "Don't feed the penguins".
Re:Don't you get it? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Microsoft to sell SUSE Support Vouchers .. (Score:3, Funny)
insert car analogy here
It's like Ford reselling support for Toyota cars.
Re:Why? (Score:5, Funny)
Why would you buy Linux support from MS? You would think you'd get better support buying it from, oh, a lemonade stand perhaps?
Because Microsoft is know for excellent support?
No, because Microsoft is known for its high quality lemons.
Re: Microsoft to sell SUSE Support Vouchers .. (Score:3, Funny)
and Toyota putting 'Toyota recommends Ford Focus' on every car Toyota sells
Re:The support is from Novell. (Score:3, Funny)
Well, yeh, I was just pointing out that there was no danger of getting some Microserf asking you "would you like VBscript with that?"
Re:Can anyone clarify? (Score:2, Funny)
Sure... for different values of "operates".