Novell's Linux business climbs since its deal with Microsoft, Sep 27, 2007

Novell Inc.'s Linux business has soared 243% since last November, when the company signed its controversial deal with Microsoft Corp.

"In the end, it was a really successful project for us, and we ended up deploying it into production -- a high-availability cluster of Dell servers with Red Hat Linux -- and we saved a bunch of money doing it that way," Drouin said.