Novell Inc. reaches two-part sale deal (NY Post)

Which may mean that it isn't "VMWare Inc." offering, but EMC. I would think it would make more sense to EMC to have Novell-Linux as a direct subsidiary, and the place they pool their low-level Linux people.

I really don't know about the details of the OSs on EMC gear; they at least make Linux device drivers, I'm sure. The "management" shelves may run Linux, controlling the "controller" shelves running something very special. Of course, I don't know if that hardware distinction exists :)