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Attachmate To Acquire Novell For $2.2B Cash

Posted by kdawson on from the old-order-passeth dept.

wiredmikey and a few others wrote in to let us know that Novell has agreed to be acquired by Attachmate Corporation for $6.10 per share in cash, in a transaction valued at approximately $2.2 billion. The Boston Globe reports that the deal also includes the sale of some intellectual assets to a consortium organized by Microsoft. Attachmate plans to operate Novell and SUSE as separate business units. Here is the press release.

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  1. Re:Mono by walshy007 · · Score: 0, Troll

    nobody remotely sane has or would ever use Mono.

    So you never use wine ever? what about samba for interacting with windows shares?

    It's all for compatibility. When employers force you to use c# and related things it is nice to be able to use linux to develop on and run it. Not all of us get to choose what languages we must work with.