The purchase of 882 patents of Novell by Microsoft causes concerns and speculations fashion
November 25th 2010 -
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CPTN is a holding financial managed by Microsoft and bringing together other actors of technologies chronograph, but whose identity is not communicated. The transparency has its limits indeed. The analysts are thus reduced by it to the speculations.
According to the analyst of the bank Jefferies, Katherine Egbert, the credits repurchased by Microsoft probably relate to WordPerfect, repurchased in the Nineties by Novell.
by Christophe Auffray, ZDNet . Published November 23, 2010
The bearing purchase on a major actor of the world Linux, it naturally causes many questions and also concerns. The secrecy maintained by Microsoft should not thus contribute to found a climate of trust. The editor indeed categorically refuses to specify the nature of the technologies covered by the 882 acquired patents.
Business Microsoft, via a holding mysterious hublot, obviously only founded a few days before the repurchase of Novell, S is seized 882 patents for 450 million dollars. Microsoft categorically refuses to reveal the nature of these patents.
Novell and Microsoft wished the transparency on the part played by the firm of Redmond in the repurchase of the editor of SuSe. In press release giving a report on its acquisition by Attachmate Corp, Novell announces that patents will be yielded for 450 million dollars to CPTN Holdings LLC.
Patents WordPerfect for some and Platespin for others
The relations with the Linux world were always tumultuous. In addition to the charges of violation of his intellectual property, the editor is suspected of having pay financed the company SCO which during many years attacked in justice of the companies engaged in technologies Unix and Linux, among which IBM and Novell.
If Microsoft communicates readily on its participation in the repurchase of Novell, it keeps on the other hand silence on the nature of the 882 patents acquired via CPTN. According to the survey carried out by ZDNet, no information is available relating to CPTN, which would have thus been creates only a few days ago.
According to Will go Cohen, person in charge of the bank of investment Signal Hill Updata, this operation of Microsoft would fall under a strategy of defense aiming at preventing competitors like VMware or IBM to put the hand on certain patents.
Novell had engaged into 2004 of the continuations against Microsoft for anticompetitive practices. By taking again the patents of WordPerfect, the firm would guard itself against potential complaints.
But for other observers, the yielded intellectual property includes especially Platespin, of virtualizing technologies and recognized administration system. In the state, these assumptions remain speculations, just like fears to see Microsoft launching out in a new offensive against Linux.
Fears of new attacks against Linux reappear
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