Novell inks SAP deal, eyes select acquisitions
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| "I would like to be acquiring in a couple of markets.
| Anything in the Linux market, systems and resources management
| and in the identity business," Hovsepian [Novell SEO] said.
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http://biz.yahoo.com/rb/070515/summit_novell.html?.v=3
SAP made a deal with Microsoft on the very same day. You'd think these two
companies (Microvell) have become twins, wouldn't you?
Also:
http://yahoo.reuters.com/news/articlehybrid.aspx?type=comktNews&storyID=urn:newsml:reuters.com:20070515:MTFH85055_2007-05-15_20-26-45_N15414747&pageNumber=1&imageid=&cap=&sz=13&WTModLoc=HybArt-C1-ArticlePage1
http://tinyurl.com/2wrofo
"Novell Chief Executive and President Ronald Hovsepian said Linux did not
infringe on any patents. He told the Reuters Global Technology, Media and
Telecoms Summit in New York on Tuesday that the deal with Microsoft was
focused on not suing each other's customers."
Same stance in their PR blog, but there are contradictions:
http://boycottnovell.com/2007/05/15/story-contradicts/
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