For you IT people, Novell being bought by Attachmate

[Casper]

http://www.novell.com/news/press/novell-agrees-to-be-acquired-by-attachmate-corporation

Holy crap. Didn't see that one coming. I really thought Microsoft was going to buy them.

[jblosser]

$2.2 billion, plus another $450 million to a wing of MS?

$2.65 billion for a company with (almost) no customers and (almost) no products?

Hmmm. I'll sell them the jblosser company, also with no customers/products, for half that...

[Casper]

$2.2 billion, plus another $450 million to a wing of MS?

$2.65 billion for a company with (almost) no customers and (almost) no products?

Hmmm. I'll sell them the jblosser company, also with no customers/products, for half that...

No customers? Novell? Eh? I have tons of clients using Novell eDirectory and Groupwise.

[MidgetTodd]

I've no idea what you two are talking about but wanted to raise my post count.

[jporter12]

I didn't know that Novell was still around! I haven't heard much about them since the mid to late 90's, when M$ intregrated networking into windows, and NT took over server duties for many companies.

[RC51 John]

Oh, yeah. A lot of very large companies still use Lotus Notes and Same Time.

Chase just converted to from 'Same Time' to 'Office Communicator' approx a month ago.

[Cdubyah]

I can name one agency in the state that still uses Novell...

sadly the one I work for

Edited November 22, 2010 by Cdubyah