Today it was announced that Ximian was sold to Novell. Suffice it to say, nobody got any real work done. I rigged up the old scrolly sign — which once said how many times Helix GNOME Preview 1 had been downloaded — to print out the current stock price of Novell stock (NASQ: NOVL).
Nat and DP, and the CEO and the Vice Chairman of Novell all spoke to us… some people are pretty apprehensive about and some people are totally psyched, but nobody is indifferent about the whole thing.
This is my first acquistion, and so I’m probably being pretty naïv about the whole thing, but I am psyched. Right now we’re a separate business unit from Novell and I think they’ll keep us that way.
Plus, I made some money off the deal and that’s nice too.