Rumor – Microsoft buying Novell????

I just talked to a vendor who is convinced that Microsoft has or will buy Novell. While this sounds absurd on the outside, he says they are having a microsoft novell integration class next month sponsered by MS. Has anyone else heard such a rumor? I can just see MS trying to take the legs out of linux by trying this type of tactic, but I do not know how/if that can happen. Given Novell’s commitment to the open source community, this seems way off base. Is novell’s code base now in the open source community? (I don’t have a clue about novell’s code base.) Lot’s of questions; an ugly rumor – no answers..