Novell acquires PlateSpin: Will everything fall to the floor?

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Platespin was founded in 2000 and the technology was created by an innovative group of six people, myself, Mark Verdun, David Richards, Bruno Baloi, Simon Howard and Dave Campbell.

Be ware, the innovative spirit left Platespin long ago in 2002 just after the VC panic after 911 and before the IT Nucelear Winter, the VCs systematically drove us all out and brought in their guy who you interviewed and then they fully diluted all of us when they took the company back to an LTD form in 2003, its the same technology we invented and wrote in 2002, respun and split into 3 packages.

Its also the same technology which won the Giga Research Award back in late 2002 as most promising ISV Product in its class.

After all these years It is still very annoying to see people take credit for something they didn't "found" or even invent in the press. Rolling back an existing Inc. to an LTD to screw the original shareholders and founders does not give any one the right to use the title of founder.

You can confirm this for yourself by going to www.archive.org and entering "www.platespin.com" into the Carnegie Melon Uni. wayback machine which is a research project which documents every public web page ever to be published on the worldwide web. The only single source of public truth.

As for the technology, its rock solid and the new team at Platespin have done a good job to repackage and re-market and refine the code and then get it sold through the channels, and for this they should be congratulated.

Novell, if they can keep their hands off it and as you say stay multiplatform has a real winner if they can let is run as a division...

It's too bad that most of the people save 1 or 2 who invented wrote and initially brought Platespin's technology to market aren't reaping the rewards. That is the real crime.

If you have any questions, I would be glad to answer them

Kind regards

Robert Reive
Former Founding Chairman, CTO and inventor of Platespin
+41 79 824 834 8
Switzerland

PS- You can check the Canadian Patent Database searching on Platespin or reive to find more of the truth there.

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