November 8th International reported that two companies under the agreement, Microsoft, Novell will pay 308 million U.S. dollars, in exchange for the right to sell which products.
Last week, Microsoft-Novell 5 announced partnership with years of patents, technology, business problems. Week 2, Novell submitted to the SEC to disclose a document the details of this transaction.
Novell CEO Ron said that Microsoft would 350,000 coupons (70 000 per year) to pay 240 million U.S. dollars to Novell. In addition, in 5 years, Microsoft will be marketing the product in Suse on spending 96 million U.S. dollars.
Microsoft's chief lawyer Brad Smith said Microsoft hopes the partnership will help its virtualization software sales. He said that our primary objective is to enable us to market virtual technology solutions.
Ron said, Microsoft will pay Novell 108 million to settle a patent-related disputes. Microsoft, Novell will also pay at least 40 million U.S. dollars, to ensure that their customers will not be because of patent issues in the prosecution of Microsoft.
Novell said this week two, it does not violate the agreement with Microsoft GPL License.