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Stockholders of networking and middleware supplier Novell voted at a exceptional meeting Feb. 17 to accept the merger agreement produced Nov. 21, 2010,Windows 7 Starter Key, with Attachmate Corp. and Longview Software package Acquisition Corp. Attachmate Corp. will expend $2.2 billion in funds, or $6.ten per share, for Waltham, Mass.-based Novell, which happens to be beset by financial challenges for plenty of many years. Thirty-year-old Attachmate,Windows 7 Activation, which has about 65,000 buyers, is an IT host connectivity and systemssecurity management integrator which has offices on 6 continents and it is headquartered in Seattle. It is actually owned by an investment group led by Francisco Partners, Golden Gate Capital and Thoma Bravo. In the time on the acquisition announcement, Novell also explained it is going to sell several of its intellectual home assets to CPTN Holdings LLC,Microsoft Office 2010 Home And Student, a consortium of technologies vendors organized by Microsoft, for $450 million in money. This payment will be contained in the amount to be paid by Attachmate, Novell stated. Novell did not specify which assets Microsoft will get, but senior IT analyst Katherine Egbert of Jefferies & Co. claimed in November that they are "most likely related to WordPerfect, which Novell acquired in the late 1990s, and through which Novell had sued Microsoft for anti-competitive behavior. "Recall that Microsoft had settled outstanding litigation with Novell related to Unix in 2006, paying what amounted to [about] $350 million to Novell over a multitude of many years," Egbert mentioned. The WordPerfect product line was sold twice,Office 2007 Standard, first to Novell in June 1994, which then sold it to Corel in January 1996. However, Novell kept the WordPerfect Office technological know-how,Office 2007 Keygen, incorporating it into its GroupWise messaging and collaboration product. The longtime rumor that Novell was planning to sell its Linux server business to VMware in a separate deal turned out not to be true. Attachmate, however, explained it plans to break out Novell's enterprise Linux business, SUSE, into a separate business unit and join both Novell and SUSE with its other holdings, which include NetIQ. "The $6.10 per share acquisition price appears to be a reasonable takeout value," Egbert claimed. "It values NOVL shares at 2.7x EVrevenue and 25x forward earnings. The sale of SUSE Linux by Novell to Attachmate is also a mild positive for Red Hat."