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Novell, make up your mind…

Today I was wondering what the f*ck Novell is doing...

When I look on the Novell site I see the following in the section lower costs "Receive over 90 percent of the functionality of Windows Vista and Microsoft Office for less than 10 percent of the price" In my world (and the world I live in might be different from real life) this means the you get allmost the same as Windows Vista for a very small price. So... it's cheaper... right?

Until I read the following on zdnet "Novell has issued a joint press release with Microsoft, in which HSBC, a customer of joint technology from the two companies, claims that Windows has a lower total cost of ownership than Linux."

I don't get it... Now I know that the first is for the desktop os and the latter most likely for the server side (which actualy isn't mentioned) it still looks pretty strange to me that Novell as a competing company to Microsoft would say the Microsoft has cheaper products.... But the again... I have no idea of marketing..