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Novell/SUSE Prime for Aquisition?

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the big-ticket-companies dept.

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.

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  1. IBM doesn't need Novell by Ayanami+Rei · · Score: 4, Interesting

    to beat SCO. That's a done deal.

    It may be, however, that IBM wants "the whole package". That is, Novell and SCO, and all their combined trademarks and patents. They'd have the whole Unix kit and kaboodle, in addition to some nice file system, network protocols, directory, client management etc. tech. to add to their portfolio.

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  2. Re:Ripe why? by _Bunny · · Score: 4, Interesting

    One word: eDirectory

    One feature that Linux lacks in the datacenter is a directory. eDirectory is what used to be known as NDS. Novell ported it to Linux a few years ago...

    I am the sysadmin for a NetWare shop. Having a replicated, partitioned directory tree is wonderful. It's one of those things that "just works".

    - Bunny