Elliot offers $2bn for Novell. OSI refutes IIPA’s view on open source. And more.
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# Novell confirmed a $2bn purchase offer from Elliot Associates. Interesting perspectives on Elliot’s offer for Novell from Linuxquestions, Andy Updegrove, and Matt Asay.
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[Read more]Oracle closes Sun acquisition. The state of the union at Red Hat. And more.
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# Oracle has completed its acquisition of Sun Microsystems.
# Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst discussed the current State of the Union at Red Hat.
# Oracle told eWeek Java will be “business as usual”.
# CNet published Scott McNealy’s farewell email to Sun employees.
# The WSJ reported that Larry Ellison …
[Read more]Yahoo! Open! Sources! Traffic! Server! Funding for 10gen. And more.
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# Red Hat launched Enterprise Virtualization for Servers for managing Linux and Microsoft Windows servers.
# 10gen, the company behind MongoDB, has …
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