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Novell Looking for Acquisition Targets?
Posted on Sunday, January 07 2007 @ 17:09:31 EST by linuxwiz |
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Matt Asay
recent blogged about how Novell might be in the market to make an
acquisition this year in the virtualization space. He lists XenSource
and Altiris as possible targets.
If Novell wants to maximize the potential of their Microsoft
alliance and bring about a scenario like Canonical founder, Mark
Shuttleworth, outlined in a recent Red Herring interview...
Microsoft is going to claim that deploying Linux anywhere,
unless you pay Microsoft a patent fee, is a violation of their patent
and they haven�t proved that yet. But they certainly seem to be
positioning themselves in such a way that they could do so.
... then you have to think they'll buy XenSource.
Why XenSource? Because it's at the heart of Red Hat's pending RHEL 5 virtualization features.
If you're into doomsday scenarios -- and you kind of have to be
these days -- you have to wonder to what extent Novell would be willing
to use as a competitive weapon the agreement with Microsoft that
excludes Novell customers from patent litigation.
If Microsoft has a patent covering Xen-like virtualization tucked
away somewhere in their intellectual property vault then Novell could
use that to plant doubt in customers minds about upgrading to RHEL 5.
Novell paid handsomely for that patent indemnification -- both in
cash and community PR -- you have to assume they're going to put it to
use and acquiring XenSource would put them in a position to leverage
it.
Of course all of this idle speculation on a slow news day could
amount to nothing. But regardless of whether the intellectual property
threats are real or implied, the Open Source market seems to have
graduated from feature wars to information wars. The open solutions of
2007 could start to be judged not just by if they solve technical
problems but if they also pass muster with a company's Chief Legal
Officer.
And that's a shame. The last thing that Open Source vendors need is customers asking, "Is it safe?" It's what SCO aimed for and failed to accomplish.
But if done correctly, Novell could show SCO a thing or two about how the game is played.
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