When Novell turned down an offer to be acquired by hedge fund Elliot Associates earlier this year, it seemed like the Linux vendor was looking for a better deal. The company announced today that it has accepted an offer to be acquired for $2.2 billion by software company Attachmate. Parallel to the acquisition, Novell has sold over 800 patents for $450 million to a consortium of technology companies organized by Microsoft.
Novell entered the Linux market in 2003 by acquiring Ximian and SuSE, commercial Linux vendors that were rising to prominence at the time. Novell used the technology obtained through those acquisitions to build enterprise Linux desktop and server platforms that the company brought to market under a unified SUSE brand. Novell opened the source code of some core SUSE features, such as the YaST configuration system, and attempted to foster an independent open source development community around its software.
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