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.

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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...)

Win Win for IBM

[c1ay]

Since Novell, as part of its sale of the UNIX licenses to SCO, retained the right to require SCO to "amend, supplement, modify or waive any right" under the license agreements (and if SCO did not comply, Novell could exercise those rights itself on SCO's behalf)....See http://www.alwayson-network.com/comments.php?id=13 03_0_3_0_C

Obligatory SCO connection

[hsa]

Look at the name of the analyst - Laura Didio.
Maybe you remember her from her SCO kernel source code news?

Analyst

[lovelace]

Just look at who's predicting that Novell will be aquired. It's Laura Dido, the same analyst that said SCO had a case. Why should anyone believe her now anymore than they did on the SCO code thing?

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.