A Year After Novell's Sale
- Dr. Roy Schestowitz
- 2012-03-08 21:54:44 UTC
- Modified: 2012-03-08 21:54:44 UTC
Summary: Upon the first anniversary of Novell's death (or thereabouts) we look back at news of interest
THE POST-NOVELL world is getting very quiet because
Attachmate does almost thing. Several years ago we saw de Rojas is moving again [
1,
2,
3], having left Novell quite a while back. Over
here in
the business press we are reminded that Novell was dismantled by a monster,
Mr. Singer:
Elliott Management Corp., the hedge fund that pushed Novell Inc. to sell itself in 2010, amassed an 8.5 percent stake in Brocade last year, gaining a position it could use to agitate for change. Elliott, based in New York, cut its stake to 7.5 percent on Jan. 13. At the time, Brocade stock had gained about 64 percent on renewed speculation about a potential sale since Elliott built its stake on Aug. 5.
The real story behind it remains mysterious and we
wrote about Brocade before, not just
the apparent shell game. In the coming weeks we'll look closer into it. Considering how Microsoft got Novell's patents out of it (and then
had SUSE sell out), there is plenty of room for suspicion, still.
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Comments
walterbyrd
2012-03-08 23:51:24
Scox is still suing, well into it's tenth year now. Never mind that scox has never presented any evidence, and it has long-since been proved that scox does not even own the IP that scox is suing over.
Dr. Roy Schestowitz
2012-03-09 07:40:38