Novell/SUSE Prime for Aquisition?

Ho Kooshy Fly writes "Supposedly Novell/SUSE looks like a good buyout target now. The likes of the obvious, IBM and the less obvious Cisco might be interested in integrating in the new Novell/SUSE company into their portfolio." Lucent, AT&T, and HP are also mentioned as possible buyers, but it's important to remember that it's all still just speculation.

Comments

Novell would make a great buy for IBM

[Anonymous Coward]

Suddenly, they'd hold all of Novell's rights vs. SCO. Since they sold SCO those rights to begin with, SCO could quickly wind up in a pickle... :]

Especially since Novell has those rights to direct SCO to do whatever it wants with respect to the contract between SCO & IBM.

In other words, IBM buying Novell would draw the noose more tightly around SCO's neck (okay, true, that's overkill, but...)

Not likely, though

[A nonymous Coward]

IBM made a point a few years ago of emphasizing that they wanted to be a service company and work with all Linux distributions neutrally, not make their own. If they were to suddenly favor one distro so strongly, it would discard their neutrality, and I think that would hurt their current business model.