On 18 Jan, Terry Lambert wrote:
>> >> AT&T sold Unix to Novell for $1 Billion dollars in the middle
>> >> of this and in reallity it was Novell that settled. BTW, this
>> >> $1B almost bankrupted(sp?) Novell.
>> > 
>> > Novell bought USL for $80M, which is only 8% of the figure
>> > you quote.  This is the same price they charged Sun to get
>> > out of royalty payments, and the later sale of USL to SCO was
>> > nothing but gravy for them: very good ROI, in fact.
>>
>> The figure I'm quoting was one I was given.
>> If it is incorrect, then I need to get the correcting
>> reference. Both John and I are working on a History of BSD.
>> As such, the correct nature of facts becomes us.
>> 
>> If you can please Terry, and reference information, rather
>> that word of mouth, would assist us greatly.
> 
> I got "uncooked" numbers, as a senior employee with stock, so
> it's not exactly "word of mouth".  8-).
> 
> Not only that, Novell almost made 100% ROI in one year.
> 
> 
>> > The $1B purchase made at around the same time was the purchase
>> > of Word Perfect.  Along with AppWare (another company started
>> Terry, I've forwarded this information to John as a
>> possible error in our notes.
> 
> See:
> 
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Thanks, Terry. I've forward the information to John. Concrete
information will help us paint the picture correctly. :-)

				Jessem.