[ale] Bad bad feeling here...

[greg.freemyer at gmail.com (Greg Freemyer)]

Mike,

I believe in response to thoughts like yours, Novell put a press
release that says:

"Novell will continue to own Novell?s UNIX copyrights following
completion of the merger as a subsidiary of Attachmate."

http://www.novell.com/company/ir/message.html

But that is basically all it says, so it is impossible to know what is going on.

Greg

On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 11:28 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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