Rumors that Novell will be sold went a long time. Literally, it has just appeared that Novell will be acquired by Attachmate Corp at a price of $ 6.10 per share, which will be approximately $ 2.2 billion.
In addition, some patents and other intellectual property will be acquired by CPTN Holdings LLC, which is controlled by Microsoft. The price of this acquisition will be $ 450 million.
Novell shares rose 6.7% after the announcement of this news.
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PS: Novell
official statementPPS: Miguel de Ikazy’s comment on Mono: “After our Novell acquisition, we’ll come from Attachmate instead of Novell.”
PPPS: We are talking about
transferring 882 patents from Novell to Microsoft