Attachmate has recently ended months of speculation about the ownership of Novell Inc. According
to the latest reports, Novell Inc., the software company, which is a major provider of Linux operating
systems, will now be acquired by Attachmate. They have declared to pay 2.2 billion dollars for Novell
Inc. Though the news of this deal has ended speculation about the future of Novell, it has given rise to
new speculations about its relation with Linux.

As per the reports, Microsoft will get rights of some intellectual properties of Novell. The news has given
rise to several anticipations regarding the division of intellectual property among Linux and Microsoft.
Reports state, the officials of the company have not yet decided about the division of rights among
Microsoft and Linux. Sources state, the division of the rights will be made public in due time.

The deal between Attachmate and Novell was anticipated by many experts. Though they considered
Attachmate to be the possible acquirer of Novell, they doubted the materialization of the deal for the
huge amount of money that will be demanded by Novell for the deal. The announcement of the deal
today finally ended all doubts about it.

Jeff Hawn, the CEO of Attachmate in an interview said that addition of the name of Novell Inc. is a great
achievement for the company. He said it will highly complement the existing portfolio of the company.
As expected, they have high hopes from the deal and expect this addition will flourish their business in
the near future.
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