You might have noticed the announcement, that Novell (Netware, SuSE Linux, Mono, MonoTouch etc) is finally to be sold. Finally – because they where looking for a buyer for a while (VMWare was in the rumors to be interested).
Now who is this buyer called Attachmate? They are obviously an IT service provider offering enterprise level solutions. Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols of “Computerworld” suggests in his Blog “Who really bought Novell? Microsoft.” that Microsoft is actually behind that deal.
Well, interestingly for the Delphi world is though who actually owns Attachmate: “Attachmate Corporation is owned by an investment group led by Francisco Partners, Golden Gate Capital and Thoma Bravo” (from the press release mentioned above).
So why do I suggest that Embarcadero bought Novell? Well, check the owner of Embaracadero: Thoma Bravo! So in fact Embarcadero didn’t buy Novell, but will become a sister company of them! Quite some potential I guess 
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