El Reg reports
Attachmate, the software shop that headhunted Novell and SUSE Linux, is itself being bought out by Micro Focus International.
The mainframe and COBOL specialist is acquiring Attachmate Group from its parent company Wizard in a deal calculated at $2.3bn before costs.
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Attachmate gives MicroFocus access to SUSE and Novell, business units bought by the company in 2010 for $2.2bn. Novell owned SUSE Linux, which it had bought in 2003 for $210m. Under Attachmate, the two were broken apart.
putting 882 patents in its Linux portfolio up for sale to a consortium backed by Microsoft.
SUSE is chief steward of the SUSE Linux Enterprise Server while Novell has been re-shaped to sell end-point management and collaboration software.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by opinionated_science on Wednesday September 17 2014, @01:44PM
I love opensuse. Just works.
The coolest tool (if you like to write/build your own software) is the Suse build studio. It is an online tools to build software for many platforms with many package configurations. V. cool.
I just hope this new company doesn't screw it up.