[ale] Bad bad feeling here...

[Michael H. Warfield]

On Mon, 2010-11-22 at 12:21 -0500, Jim Kinney wrote:
> Novel. "We should have been where Microsoft is but we didn't move fast
> enough".

They've been true to their colors.  I know from personal experience,
they thought Netware and SPX/IPX was the be all and end all of
networking and would rule the world long after the TCP/IP horse was out
of the barn.

Mike

> On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 12:06 PM, Michael Trausch <mike at trausch.us>
> wrote:
> 
> > 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...
> >
> > --
> > Sent from my G2 running CyanogenMod!
> > That is, a phone. :)
> > 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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> 
> -- 
> -- 
> James P. Kinney III
> I would rather stumble along in freedom than walk effortlessly in
> chains.
> 
> 
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