Waltham (ip-192.com): Novell has put itself up for sale, several news outlets report. The Wall Street Journal reported that the Waltham, Massachusetts based company can count on up to 20 bidders, most of them private equity firms. An unsolicited takeover bid by Elliot Associates to buy Novell for $5.75 per share in cash was turned [...]
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Novell: Up for sale?
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SCO challenges Unix copyright, again
Denver (ip-192.com): Bankrupt Unix vendor SCO is at it again: A federal appeals court reversed a judge's decision that granted the copyright of the Unix computer operating system to Novell. "There are 20 million versions of Linux running around the world," so SCO chief executive Darl McBride in an interview with the Associated Press. "Linux [...]
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