The product developments the partnership between Microsoft and Turbolinux create are perhaps of most interest to the Japanese market where Turbolinux has its stronghold. However, for U.S. enterprises watching Microsoft do battle with open source, the news here is that Turbolinux also said it will participate in the Interoperability Vendor Alliance, a Microsoft-sponsored community of software and hardware vendors. The appearance that this is an independent consortium, and not one solely trying to fulfill Microsoft's agenda, would obviously be a boon to Microsoft. However, that's probably a pointless hope. No matter how many of its Linux partners Microsoft gets to sign onto the alliance, Microsoft's name will forever be all over it and all of its doings will therefore be suspect.

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