Novell, Inc. (NASDAQ: NOVL), the leader in intelligent workload management, announced that it has entered into a definitive merger agreement under which Attachmate Corporation would acquire Novell for $6.10 per share in cash in a transaction valued at approximately $2.2 billion.
Attachmate Corporation is owned by an investment group led by Francisco Partners, Golden Gate Capital [...]
TechWorld, Max Cooter (30.08.10)
Novell has made its Cloud Security Service generally available. The company announced the service, which gives cloud providers the opportunity to secure their offerings for their customers, last year and it has been used in several beta programmes since then. The Novell service has been designed to help enterprises maintain their identity [...]
Novell and VMware have extended their strategic relationship by establishing an OEM agreement that will see VMware distribute and support SUSE Linux Enterprise Server in VMware vSphere environments. VMware will also look to standardise their virtual appliance-based products offering on the Novell Platform. This offers significant validation of Novell’s Linux Strategy and offers customers more [...]
PlateSpin solutions support both Windows and Linux operating systems; address server migration and disaster recovery needs of heterogeneous physical and virtual server environments
Novell today announced new versions of three of its PlateSpin® Workload Management products – PlateSpin Migrate, PlateSpin Protect and PlateSpin Forge®. These new versions support both Linux* and Windows*, making them the first [...]
