One more Novellite leaves the building
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| ...the Novell exodus continues...with Walter Knapp, former effective
| head of the Novell's Linux Impact Team, is leaving Novell's Waltham
| headquarters for other work.
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http://weblog.infoworld.com/openresource/archives/2007/04/one_more_novell.html
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.
|
| [...]
|
| Novell, for example, has been in trouble for some time. It recently
| signed a deal with Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) to bundle the company's
| Linux products with Windows in a joint selling effort to enterprises.
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http://www.streetinsider.com/Contributors/McAfee,+Novell,+And+Company:+New+Takeover+Technique/2144525.html
Related:
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.
|
| [...]
|
| It is also very interesting that, although the main role of Nat
| Friedman and Miguel De Icaza is ensuring that Novell behave
| properly within the community, they were only briefed within
| the last week before the announcement about the Microsoft deal.
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http://boycottnovell.com/2006/12/17/novell-the-eight-hundred-pound-penguin/
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