Novell shareholders approve sale to Attachmate

17.02.2011

Attachmate , ending months of speculation about who would try to buy the company. Attachmate is backed by private equity firms Francisco Partners, Golden Gate Capital and Thoma Bravo. Its products include software for terminal emulation and fraud detection.

Novell is best known these days for its SUSE Linux OS and Xen virtualization software. Attachmate has said it would run Novell as two separate business units -- Novell and SUSE.