Novell sold for $2.2 billion

Fred A. Miller fmiller at lightlink.com
Tue Nov 23 00:53:33 GMT 2010


On 11/22/2010 06:57 PM, Basil Chupin wrote:
>
>
>     As Microsoft-led consortium sweeps up 882 Novell patents.
>
> Microsoft's intellectual property vault has been bolstered with
> some 882 more software patents after open source vendor Novell
> <http://www.novell.com/home/> was acquired for US$2.2 billion (AU$2.2
> billion) late yesterday.
>
>
> http://www.itnews.com.au/News/239447,novell-sold-for-22-billion.aspx

I'm NOT surprised.....not surprised. openSUSE will not last long, IMHO.

Fred

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