At Red Hat tech conference taking place in San Francisco, the maker of open source software and Microsoft showed a lot of progress to their landmark partnership announced in November.

Red Hat, which makes a popular version of the open source operating system Linux, was once feared and hated by Microsoft. Microsoft most important customers — big companies — flocked to Linux as an alternative to Windows Server.

And that used to be an expensive problem for Microsoft. Not only does Microsoft charge companies to use Windows Server, but Windows Server also means a company is more likely to buy other Microsoft/Windows products, such as its database SQL Server.

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