Ina Fried in Mobile on August 4, 2011 at 1:28 pm PT
Google’s top legal officer acknowledges that Microsoft did, in fact, offer to bid with Google for Novell’s patents, but contends that Redmond is trying to distract from the bigger picture.
Kara Swisher in News on August 3, 2011 at 9:38 pm PT
Google waxes on, so Microsoft waxes off.
Ina Fried in Mobile on July 8, 2011 at 5:00 am PT
Redmond tried a similar approach several years back as the company looked to get companies using Linux to license Microsoft’s patents.
But the upside could be even bigger this time, with the real possibility that Microsoft could make more revenue from patent licenses to Android phone makers than it does from selling its Windows Phone operating system.
John Paczkowski in News on November 22, 2010 at 10:36 am PT
After months of rumination, Novell has finally settled on a buyer, two actually. On Monday the enterprise software infrastructure provider agreed to be acquired by Attachmate for $2.2 billion and, as part of that agreement to sell off a chunk of its intellectual property to a consortium led by Microsoft for $450 million.
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Voices in News on October 18, 2010 at 10:40 am PT
The New York Post is hearing from a source that data-storage leader
EMC is wooing Isilon, a specialist in “clustered storage,” with a $2 billion acquisition offer and that a deal should be sealed before the end of the year. The report also says that EMC-controlled VMware is talking to Novell about buying its SUSE Linux business.
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Ben Worthen and Anupreeta Das, Reporters, The Wall Street Journal in News on September 17, 2010 at 1:31 am PT
Novell Inc. is in advanced talks with at least two buyers, including VMware Inc., to sell the software company in separate pieces, people familiar with the matter said. VMware is pursuing Novell’s SUSE Linux operating system business, these people said. Attachmate Corp., a private-equity backed software company, could end up buying some or all of the remaining assets.
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John Letzing, Reporter, MarketWatch in News on July 23, 2010 at 9:46 am PT
Roughly nine months after Google Inc. edged out rival Microsoft Corp. to win a high-profile contract to supply email and collaboration software to the City of Los Angeles, the company has missed a June deadline for full implementation due to lingering security concerns.
John Paczkowski in News on July 8, 2010 at 1:53 pm PT
SCO really gives new meaning to “never say die,” doesn’t it? Predictably, the company is appealing the recent judgment against it in its legal battle with Novell over key Unix copyrights.
John Paczkowski in News on June 11, 2010 at 9:31 am PT
SCO’s long-running campaign against Linux may have finally been dealt a death blow. Late Thursday, the judge presiding over the company’s legal battle with Novell rejected its request for a new trial and upheld an April jury decision that determined Novell, not SCO, to be the rightful owner of key Unix copyrights.
