I figured the Red Sea had parted to allow Ron Hovsepian and Steve Ballmer to pass, holding hands and singing kumbayah.
Nope.
What I learned, once I got to my computer, was that Novell and Microsoft have agreed to do what the market has already been forcing them to do: interoperate and not sue each other. Am I missing something? Oh, yes. "Sales support." I'm not yet sure what that means, but I guarantee it doesn't mean doing anything to promote Linux, as Ballmer said:
"If you want something, I'm still going to tell you [to buy] Windows, Windows, Windows."
http://weblog.infoworld.com/openresource/archives/2006/11/ballmers_new_we.html