For those who follow the business of the collaboration/communities of practice/virtual teaming business, Novell has acquired Sitescape as per the Feb 13, 2008, press release. And for those with a long memory, Sitescape got its start in the mid-90s and came to wider attention when it acquired AltaVista (now owned by Overture Services), the first truly powerful search engine and my fave for many years, from Compaq, which had acquired it when Compaq swallowed Digital Equipment Corporation, home to the engineers who invented AltaVista.