Submitted by: kirkland on Sunday November 05th, 2006 at 07:52 PM EST

Physicists are yet to achieve the quantum theory of gravity - the ultimate marriage in science between quantum mechanics and Einstein’s general theory of relativity. If only Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer and Novell CEO Ron Hovsepian were physicists.

On Thursday evening, the world’s No 1 software company, Microsoft, and the world’s leading maker of operating systems based on Linux, Novell, shook hands on a tie-up to create interoperable software and to “build, market, and support a series of new solutions to make Novell and Microsoft products work better together”.

This means Microsoft will offer sales support for Novell’s SUSE Linux operating system and aim to create technologies that will allow Linux and Windows to run simultaneously on their computers — the Holy Grail of software.

» Full story @ DNA India