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...He travels there frequently and enthuses about his upmarket Espuma coffee house chain developed with the Novell family from Barcelona....
...One wishes Autonomy well as it prepares for the corporate equivalent of jigsaws in the sun lounge alongside such old-timers as Borland and Novell....
...It also owns Suse, a German open-source software company, and Novell, which it acquired with the help of Microsoft in a $2.2bn deal in 2010....
...This article has been updated to clarify details of Attachmate’s purchase of Novell....
...Novell Systems (RIP, 2010), Blue Coat Systems (2011), BMC Software (2013) and Compuware (2014) were among those cajoled into accepting acquisitions or buyouts....
...Golden Gate has experience in software investing, previously buying companies such as Infor, Lawson and Novell. Elliott is also agitating for a sale of Compuware, a smaller competitor to BMC....
...The following year a bid by Elliott for Novell ultimately led to that company's sale to Golden Gate Capital for $2.2bn....
...Clearance of the Motorola deal, along with Washington’s approval on Monday of landmark sales of patents by Nortel and Novell, is set to redraw competition between Apple, Google, Microsoft and others in the...
...As we suggested a few weeks ago, the high prices bid recently for patents from Novell and Nortel will have prompted many others to dust off their IP portfolios....
...The story so far: Google accused Microsoft and others of using bogus patents to attack Android – including a batch of patents bought from Novell earlier this year....
...points out (and we reported previously), the DoJ intervened in a similar case earlier this year in the acquisition by a different consortium (Microsoft, Oracle, Apple and EMC) of a sheaf of patents from Novell...
...In the Novell case, the DoJ intervened to block Microsoft from directly acquiring any of the patents that were up for sale....
...However, the company is currently being acquired by Attachmate which inevitably creates some uncertainly over the long-term future of Novell’s various product lines....
...When executing an order to sell 5m shares of Novell, Merrill filled the order at prices below the price the broker executed it at in the market....
...Microsoft has stepped in to help seal the $2.2bn sale of Novell, a struggling US software company, in the latest sign of the latter’s strategic significance to some of the industry’s biggest players....
...Last month, Attachmate acquired Novell, whose Suse Linux slugs it out with Red Hat’s Enterprise Linux in the “business-class” Linux market....
...The deal is quite a coup for Novell, which supplied its Suse Linux Enterprise Server product modified with a real-time “kernel” to reduce latency times. Linux is not just for stock exchanges, however....
...In deal news, Novell jumped 6.5 per cent to $5.96 after Attachmate, an investment group, agreed to buy the software maker for $2.2bn....
...A 56-year-old former Novell and Sun Microsystems executive, Schmidt was brought in as Google’s CEO in 2001 to add management experience and help shepherd its growth....
...Novell fights for Sun customers The gloves are off. Novell has launched a campaign of special offers to convince businesses using Sun Microsystems’ software to switch to Novell....
...Software manufacturer Novell sank 3.2 per cent to $5.82 after it cut its third- quarter revenue outlook....
...Because Novell currently has almost $1bn in cash and equivalents, Elliott said it was valuing the business at about $1bn. Shares of Novell were up 26 per cent in after-hours trading....
...JPMorgan is advising Novell on its strategic review....
...Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson reports on the growth of the virtual exhibition industry: “Inside the cavernous exhibition hall, delegates milled round booths, inspecting white papers from exhibitors such as Novell...
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