The Attachmate Group Completes Acquisition Of Novell

The Attachmate Group has announced the completion of the acquisition of Novell, Inc., the intelligent workload management company, under the terms of the definitive agreement disclosed on November 22, 2010. Novell will now operate as two separate business units under the Novell and SUSE brand names and join Attachmate and NetIQ as holdings of The Attachmate Group.

The addition of Novell furthers the mission of The Attachmate Group and its ability to support customers’ strategic and tactical business requirements through innovative solutions, quality products, and exceptional service. The Attachmate Group product families now include complementary solutions that range across IT operations management; open source; end user computing and collaboration; host connectivity and legacy modernisation; security, identity and compliance management; virtualisation and cloud computing; and more.