Novell offers enterprise class infrastructure software and services in a flexible combination of open source and proprietary technologies. This software helps customers manage, simplify, secure and integrate their heterogeneous IT environments at low cost. As a result, customers can reduce cost and complexity while increasing the return on their IT investment. Unlike others, we also help customers migrate from proprietary to open source at a pace that suits them. Novell offers the experience and reliability of world-class engineering, backed by worldwide support, services and education from us and our trusted network of partners. In November 2006, Novell and Microsoft announced a set of broad business and technical collaboration agreements to build, market and support a series of new solutions to make Novell and Microsoft products work better together. Under the agreements, Novell is establishing clear leadership among Linux platform and open source software providers on interoperability for mixed-source environments.