One more Novellite leaves the building
While John Dragoon (a generally likable and great guy) attempts to confuse the issue as to why people are annoyed with the Microsoft/Novell pact (Hint: John, it's not an interoperability thing, it's a patent thing), the Novell exodus continues...with Walter Knapp, former GM of SUSE Linux (and effective head of the Novell's Linux Impact Team, leaving Novell's Waltham headquarters for other work.
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McAfee, Novell, And Company: New Takeover Technique
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| The Financial Times has come up with a novel assessment of the stock
| options scandal. It may open the door to takeover bids at as many
| as 42 companies. The primary leverage is that investors can ask the
| courts to call an annual meeting in many states when the company has
| not held one for over 13 months. Companies involved in the options
| scandal cannot send out proxies for these meetings because they do
| not have the required financial statements to go along.
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| Novell, for example, has been in trouble for some time. It recently
| signed a deal with Microsoft to bundle the company's
| Linux products with Windows in a joint selling effort to enterprises.
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They could be up for grabs. Then consider the fact that Novell once thought about buying Red Hat, not SuSE.
Novell, The Eight Hundred Pound Penguin
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| Interestingly, according to Masie, after realizing that they
| couldn't open-source Netware, Novell apparently considered
| acquiring Red Hat at the time, as well as the possibility of
| forking Slackware before deciding to acquire Ximian, and
| subsequently SUSE.
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