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Maybe just a holding cell

Maybe just a holding cell

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.

“It’s not Attachmate buying Novell. It’s 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.


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