TDII Extra: Novell Buying and Selling

Posted on November 22, 2010 by GilPress

Today in 1994, Novell acquired WordPerfect and Quattro Pro in an attempt to compete with Microsoft’s word processing and spreadsheet products. Continuing to lose market share, Novell sold the products to Corel in January 1996. Today it was announced that three private-equity firms are buying Novell for $2.2 billion.

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