Attachmate To Acquire Novell For $2.2B Cash

wiredmikey and a few others wrote in to let us know that Novell has agreed to be acquired by Attachmate Corporation for $6.10 per share in cash, in a transaction valued at approximately $2.2 billion. The Boston Globe reports that the deal also includes the sale of some intellectual assets to a consortium organized by Microsoft. Attachmate plans to operate Novell and SUSE as separate business units. Here is the press release.

Attachmate

[Rik Sweeney]

Attachmate To Acquire Novell

Whoooooooooooooooooo?!

Attachmate

[capnchicken]

In other news Attachmate's website appears to be unable to handle the extra load caused by this announcement. Things are not looking well.

Re:IP sold to MS-led consortium = UNIX?

[Jim Hall]

> Think about it: Novell hold the copyrights and trademarks to UNIX. They would make for a nice addition to Microsoft's portfolio, don't you think?

Maybe not. According to this old press release, [groklaw.net] Novell sold the UnixWare IP to Santa Cruz in 1996.

attachmate

[digitaldc]

They will attach themselves to you and then mate

Re:What a Waste!

[filesiteguy]

Um, my name isn't Jesus.

Re:Cue The Queen

[Cwix]

Well assuming that the mod would find something googlable in "Another one (that made a deal with MS) bites the dust."

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Re:Mono?

[thijsh]

Always remember to double tap!

Re:CEO

[hoggoth]

In court testimony Mr. Hawn is reported to have said 'I was told we had to kill GNU as part of this deal. I didn't really understand the reference, but I looked up a picture of a Gnu. When I saw them wandering onto my ranch I knew what had to be done."