Posted Nov 23, 2010 7:39 UTC (Tue) by shemminger (subscriber, #5739)
Parent article: Novell sold to Attachmate
Attachmate seemed like an odd choice. Maybe they are just bankers and the other shoe is yet to drop:
On Zdnet.
Its not Attachmate buying Novell. Its really a private equity deal to buy Novell clean it up, combine it with Attachmate and NetIQ as a $1 billion company which then can be sold or taken public, said Ira Cohen, managing director at Signal Hill Updata, of New York, NY, a banker who has had dealings with Novell in the past.