On Wednesday 05 November 2003 12:05, Paul Beach wrote:

> Corect me if I am wrong here, but I seem to remember that the German
> Government owns stock in SuSE,
> one assumes that if the Novell (IBM) acquisition of SuSE is going to take
> place, then the German Government
> as a SuSE stockholder must be in agreement with it.
>

The only thing I know for sure is that SuSE are a privately held company, so
it will be hard to discover whether and how much stock is held by the
various investors. Presumably Seibt had their backing for the deal. And USD
210m probably represents a good return on whatever the stockholders have
invested.

Overall reaction to the deal on the suse-linux-english list is split between
those who are saying wait and see and those who see this deal as a disaster
in the making. SuSE employees have been noticeably quite so far. Anyone got
any reports of the reaction on the suse-linux german list?


Paul
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