Chameleon Prints
Chameleon Prints
British mainframe vendor and COBOL titan Micro Focus just announced a plan to purchase Attachmate. We get press announcements of mergers and buyouts all the time, but this one caught my eye.
Dear Linux Pro Reader,
British mainframe vendor and COBOL titan Micro Focus just announced a plan to purchase Attachmate. We get press announcements of mergers and buyouts all the time, but this one caught my eye. Attachmate was famous back in the old days for making terminal emulator software, then they dropped out of the headlines for a few years, when terminal emulation dropped out the headlines, but they bubbled along behind the scenes, building a quiet empire through acquisitions of management tool vendors such as NetIQ and OnDemand Software.
Attachmate stepped into the foreground again – at least for the FOSS world – in 2010 when they purchased corporate network giant Novell. Novell had a mixed record with the open source community; on one hand, their patent-fraught cross-licensing agreement with Microsoft struck a raw nerve for many of the Linux faithful. On the other hand, they stepped up big time to support Linux in the SCO suit. But one reason why Linux watchers spent so much time watching Novell was that Novell happened to be the owners of SUSE Linux.
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