We told you a week or two back that new Novell Inc chief Robert Frankenberg wanted to move the company away from its long-standing confrontation with Microsoft Corp: now the Wall Street Journal has picked up the story, saying that Frankenberg met last month with Microsoft chairman Bill Gates to discuss a truce and how to make Microsoft’s operating systems work better with NetWare; Windows NT still doesn’t work as well with NetWare as it might, in part because wrangling between Microsoft and Novell led them to develop software to make the products communicate separately; Microsoft plans to feature built-in support of NetWare in its next version of Windows NT – and in Chicago, the forthcoming Windows 4.
