That's interesting news, Phil. Rumor among some stockbroker friends of
mine is that Novell is going to be split into two separate companies and
then sold off to investor groups.

DJ

On 9/17/2010 8:30 AM, Tully, Phil wrote:
I saw this on Slashdot today: "According to the Wall Street Journal,
VMware is attempting to acquire Novell's SUSE Linux operating system
business. This move would give VMware a full stack of enterprise
software<http://blogs.gartner.com/chris-wolf/2010/09/16/vmware-novell-suse-acquisition-rumors-why-it-makes-sense/>
and allow it to establish itself as a full-blown infrastructure and
software
vendor<http://blogs.computerworld.com/16978/vmware_is_buying_novell>
in direct competition with Red Hat."



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