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Novell wants PlateSpin for $205m

Anonymous Coward

Could pay $205m 

Posted Monday 25th February 2008 23:46 GMT

Flame

.... or get something for free instead:

http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-p2v/

Anonymous Coward

Desperation!? 

Posted Thursday 28th February 2008 16:36 GMT

$205M for a $20M turnover!! Expected to make $35M in 2008, hardly the growth patterns of companies in the Virtualization space?

Seems Novell are desperate to be considered in the Virtualization space, not much for VMware to be scared of with this purchase:-)

Bizarre!