Comments on: [RUMOR] VMware to buy Novell?

By: Gareth R James

Gareth R James — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 02:14:23 +0000

Novell also given Citrix Partners free access to it's PlateSpin Recon product. (18 Feb 2010) – after that announcement there were rumours that Citrix was buying Novell!

By: BENGEO1231

BENGEO1231 — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 00:46:12 +0000

Novell did a greate job with linux . look at OES2 ..what a magic it does to secure linux with directory services and identity management.File /STORAGE and print servicess is one of the greatest implimented in any OS.

By: VMware and Novell: Merger Rumor or More? | The VAR Guy

VMware and Novell: Merger Rumor or More? | The VAR Guy — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 15:18:57 +0000

[...] VMware is willing to pay $2 billion or more to acquire Novell? Plenty of open source pundits are speculating about a potential VMware-Novell merger or [...]

By: Novell Watcher

Novell Watcher — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 14:25:52 +0000

Extremely long shot.

Novell is on a downward trend with respect to an aging product portfolio, cashflow, Linux market share, IDM and the VM management stuff. While I would concede that the Linux and IDM stuff might be useful, I can't see VMWare having the stomach to sort out the Novells legacy business. Additionally there's also overlap in the product portfolio - VMware bought Zimbra collaboration (would compete agianst Groupwise), vCenter compete's with the Platespin stuff, and the Xen hypervisor in the distro competes head on with vSphere.

Also Novell has just under $1bn in cash in the bank forcing vmware to bid OVER that. Vmware's last few strategic buys (Springsource, Zimbra) were way south of that number in the 100's of millions range.

So add all of those things up and I think you'll find it might be just too rich with too little upside for VMware.

By: Daniel Eason

Daniel Eason — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 07:56:00 +0000

Have you been reading my tweets

By: jlchannel

jlchannel — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 12:04:11 +0000

I don't see any reasonable benefit for buying Novell.

By: Mike Laverick

Mike Laverick — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 11:53:52 +0000

Ahhh. I didn't think it take long for folks to put 2+2 together to make 5! Not a week goes by without VendorA partnering with VendorB, that by the next week folks are thinking, well hey, maybe vendorA will buy vendorB. Personally, I don't see VMware buying this. They have made a lot of progress by being guest-operating system agnostic. Whilst its nice to see them standardise their own virtual appliance on SLES – crikey, any standardisation would be good on that front – I think they would be shooting themselves in the foot. Still its an interesting take on the question of “will VMware be the next Novell”. Answer – YES! We bought them. At the risk of touting my wares on other peoples blogs – I wrote about this on TechTarget recently – http://searchvirtualdatacentre.techtarget.co.uk…