If the market doesn’t want Micro Focus, why does OpenText? It appears to be a big deal about getting bigger rather than direct synergy with the acquiring company.
Open-source infrastructure and application delivery vendor Suse — the company behind one of the oldest Linux distributions — today announced that it is once again an independent company. T
Earlier today, <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2011/08/03/google-rips-android-competitors-over-patents/">Google came out swinging</a>. Seemingly sick of being continuously slapped in the face by the p
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<a href="http://www.attachmate.com">Attachmate Corporation</a> has agreed to acquire technology giant <a
It is over. The SCO’s long-running lawsuit against Novell over a number of patents involved around Unix copyright. In short, SCO claimed to own Unix even after Novell bought it back near the tur
<img src="http://tctechcrunch.files.wordpress.com/2010/03/novell.jpg" class="shot2" />New York-based hedge fund <a href="http://www.elliottmgmt.com/">Elliott Associates L.P.</a> in a <a href="http://w
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SCO, the operating system company that has been trying to make a living doing nothing but litigation, is back in the ne
Remember SCO? Yeah, me neither. But the company that once made a name for itself by existing solely to sue people now owes it’s biggest victim, Novell, $2.54 million plus interest. The story bre
Novell, the company that markets SUSE Linux, an enterprise-oriented commercial Linux distro, has a lot at stake in the coming netbook wars. After all, the little machines are overwhelmingly running va
Microsoft, marked with the scarlet letter “A” (for “antitrust”), is still paying for yesterday’s sins. Today, the Supreme Court ruled that a private antitrust suit brough
Lenovo will release laptops that have Linux instead of Windows later this year. I know, I know, this means the end of Microsoft as we know it… hellfire, dark clouds… Reuters, can’t b