[ale] Bad bad feeling here...

[Jim Kinney]

Novel. "We should have been where Microsoft is but we didn't move fast
enough".

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...
>
> --
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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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