“Even before LinuxWorld Conference and Expo opens here today in
San Francisco, two of the main players, Sun Microsystems and
Novell, have already hit the headlines. Might Sun possibly be
contemplating using its substantial cash reserves to buy Novell, is
the question of the day after a remark to the press–reported first
in the Wall Street Journal–by Sun’s president and COO Jonathan
Schwartz.“‘With our balance sheet,’ Schwartz said in an interview on
Sunday, ‘we’re considering all our options…'”