Novell users seek answers following $2.2B sale to Attachmate

Customers in the dark about the future of Novell's products following company's sale to Attachmate, Microsoft-led consortium

By Patrick Thibodeau, Computerworld
December 13, 2010 03:41 PM ET

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The complex $2.2 billion sale of Novell Inc. and its copyrights to Attachmate Corp. and a consortium led by Microsoft Corp. has left users wondering about the future of the combined company's product lines , and about Microsoft's still-unclear role in the transaction.

Bob Schaber, network operations manager for the Dublin, Ohio, city government, said his biggest questions about the deal focus on which Novell products Attachmate will continue developing and what its long-term plans for those products will be.

The city government runs Novell's Open Enterprise Server and its Teaming and Conferencing applications.

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