In the third of a series of interviews by Linux Foundation executive director Jim Zemlin, Novell CEO Ron Hovsepian (right) insisted his company is not being hurt by its association with Microsoft. "Novell grew 200% in the SUSE Linux marketplace year-over-year from an invoicing perspective," he said. The overall market is growing at 22% according to IDC," and "we’re taking some market share from our competitors. "The key to that success has been better Windows co-existance, he insisted. "The realities of a customer’s world is that they’re going to live with both for a long time in our lifetime," and the Microsoft relationship helps with that. Hovsepian said Novell has "doubled down" on Mono, the .Net implementation led by Miguel de...