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Attachmate To Acquire Novell For $2.2B Cash
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.
According to the article Microsoft is buying the Unix ownership interest. This will solve the achilles heel of SCO: Novel pulled the rug out from under them when they said SCO never bought the rights. Linux is toast.
"Novell is the owner of the UNIX and UnixWare copyrights"
Not this shit again ...
Uh, no, SCO is.
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.