Novell to be bought by Attachmate for $2.2 billion
Novell Inc., the maker of Linux operating-system software, has agreed to be bought by Attachmate Corp. for $2.2 billion in cash, ending at least eight months of bidding.
Novell is buying five-year-old Toronto-based PlateSpin for $205 million cash whose management software will help define Novell as an infrastructure company and assure it a place selling into the next-generation data centre, says Sys-Con.