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Novell acquires SiteScape – what took you so long?

, February 14, 2008 @ 11:07 am ET

Novell has announced that it has acquired open source collaboration software vendor SiteScape for an undisclosed fee, adding team workspace and collaboration functionality to its collaboration software portfolio. The main question the deal raised for me is why it took so long. Novell announced an OEM relationship with SiteScape almost exactly a year ago but as I reported at the time had been talking about adding team workspace and real-time collaboration to its portfolio since March 2006.

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3 Responses to “Novell acquires SiteScape – what took you so long?”

  1. EOS Blogs » Blog Archive » Open Source Acquisitions - What Others Are Saying says:
    February 15, 2008 at 2:02 am

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  2. Matt Asay says:
    February 15, 2008 at 6:25 pm

    What took it so long? Well, first they had to completely rewrite SiteScape in Java. (Yes, it’s true – they basically rewrote the product they were OEM’ing.) The real question is who cares? I’ve never seen SiteScape in a competitive deal. I doubt Novell saddling it with its dying Workgroup division is going to change that.

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