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Novell Ripe for Acquisition

Sun 09 Nov 02003 04:52 PM
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To complete my trilogy of speculative posts, this story reports that various analysts think that Novell is there for the taking by IBM, AT&T or Lucent.

Strangely, before I read this story, I was chatting with Martin (actually, whinging about Solaris might be more accurate) and I said that I thought Sun should acquire Novell. I think it would make a lot of sense, especially as the consensus seems to be that Scott McNealy really needs to pull something dramatic out of the bag to keep Sun in the game.

Of course, the fact that IBM took a 5% stake in Novell might be a thorn in such a deal, but I’m pretty sure it wouldn’t allow IBM a veto if an offer for the company came along.

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