[ale] Bad bad feeling here...

[Michael Trausch]

I think that this is something to keep an eye on, for sure. I haven't had a
chance to look into any of this more deeply, but I was really hoping that
Novell would have freely released its UNIX holdings in the event of
something like this. Of course, that was just a silly idealistic notion,
wasn't it...

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On Nov 22, 2010 11:29 AM, "Michael H. Warfield" <mhw at wittsend.com> wrote:
> This may just be my innate over active paranoia kicking in but this just
> can not be good. Not at all.
>
> Novell has agreed to be bought out by Attachmate, which is, in and of
> itself, not a bad thing (Novell needed to be picked up by someone).
>
> http://www.boston.com/business/ticker/2010/11/novell_agrees_t_1.html
>
> The devil is in the details. Attachmate gets and will run "Novell and
> SUSE" but...
>
> "Novell also said it has entered into an agreement for the concurrent
> sale of certain intellectual property assets to CPTN Holdings LLC, a
> consortium of technology companies organized by Microsoft Corp., for
> $450 million in cash..."
>
> Take the current Novell and subtract off Novell the brand (presuming
> Netware included) and SUSE and what's left (worth a cool $450 million in
> cash)? The only things I can think of would be the Old UNIX licenses
> and properties, which were at the heart of the SCO litigation until
> Novell blew the wheels off from under SCO. Where fore goes UnixWare.
>
> I've got a bad feeling this is not going to end well. I may be wrong
> and I really REALLY hope I'm wrong, but I just gotta a baaad feeling
> Abbot (cue walking dead mummy).
>
> Regards,
> Mike
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