Novell Linux announcements point to possible future of Novell education

NetworkWorld has an article concerning some recent anouncement coming out of Novell. It seems that Novell has been working with CompTIA to develop Linux training materials for academic environments to promote open source training. Novell will also donate $1.5 million in SuSE Linux software for the universities too.

I wonder what this does to Novell's deal with LPI??

I know universities are interested in training materials for Linux and open source. I personally know of one university that was using the SAIR material when the SAIR exams were essentially a dead certification. The material was good training material but it prepared people for the wrong exams.
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Linux Log has picked up on this story and has supplied several links on it's site to 6 other sites with the same information. There is also an article on Novell's web site that details Novell's program more indepth. This story is turnign out to be very important. Novell is trying to reestablish itself as a leading IT firm and it is doing it through products & training.