Just noticed this press release around the Microsoft / Novell announcement. How can this be anything but good? Vendors working together to make sure the mixed environments we work in everyday aren’t so hard to integrate/build/troubleshoot, etc.
Has some nice side effects for the Mono project I suspect also. There has always been an unspoken question around how long Microsoft will ignore them.
Ultimately all the companies involved are finally looking at what the customer wants/needs instead of exclusively what improves their bottom line.
Hopefully we will see more in this area…