Novell strikes agreement with US government
A big win for Novell
By INQUIRER staff: Thursday 08 July 2004, 17:26
NOVELL HAS REACHED AN AGREEMENT with the U.S. General Services Administration
to get involved in the SmartBUY program, for government-wide software purchasing
– making Novell the first ever company to do so.
SmartBUY, brought in by the federal government, is an initiative to support
enterprise level software management through the aggregate buying of
commercial software government-wide, hoping to achieve bulk savings.
Clearly, this is great news for Novell, but bad news for Microsoft.
Read the full article here . . .
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