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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.
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(Score: 3, Interesting) by Thexalon on Wednesday September 17 2014, @02:19PM
More to the point, that suggests the value of Linux itself as a server platform is at a minimum something like $200B. I'd actually guess that's undervalued, because of organizations like Debian that are quite clearly not for sale. That's about half the market cap of Microsoft. And it also doesn't include all the other uses of Linux, including embedded systems, Android phones, and even desktops.
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