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Novell, buyer's remorse, and the patent threatNovell, buyer's remorse, and the patent threatPosted Nov 22, 2006 9:51 UTC (Wed) by error27 (subscriber, #8346)Parent article: Novell, buyer's remorse, and the patent threat
Yeah. It's a funny thing. Microsoft obviously has more risk of a lawsuit from Novell than the other way around and that's why the cash went from Microsoft to Novell. If Novell was going to agree to not sue Microsoft in exchange for a huge pile of cash, it kinda makes sense that Microsoft would also agree not to sue Novell...
But the way it played out wasn't brilliant.
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Novell, buyer's remorse, and the patent threat Posted Nov 22, 2006 11:35 UTC (Wed) by louie (subscriber, #3285) [Link] If you measure the money given as a percentage of revenue, profit, or cash on hand, it becomes a little less clear who is really giving more. (Hint: MS's annual revenue is about 40x Novell's, profits about 50x and assets about 25x. And MS's payment to Novell about 4x the money going the other way. Make your own assessments about relative importance.)
Novell, buyer's remorse, and the patent threat Posted Nov 27, 2006 5:25 UTC (Mon) by jzbiciak (✭ supporter ✭, #5246) [Link] Novell's patents probably are confined to the server space, since Novell doesn't have much of a client-side play that they originated themselves. How about we restate this as server revenue vs. server revenue? The bulk of Microsoft's revenue comes from the client side.
Just a thought.
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