>>What's strange is that it's Novell that's buying SuSE Linux, yet SuSE Linux stock is only up .02 (to 3.49), while the Novell stock has jumped up 1.62 today to 7.67.
>>meanwhile, RedHat down 1.76 to 13.62.

>That sortof makes sense, or about as much sense as the stock market usually makes to me.

Doesn't made sense often to me either, but generally you would think the company who's being bought is the one who's stock goes up, not the other way around...afterall the buyer company is SPENDING money.

>Wow, I haven't followed quotes for about a year but I didn't know MSFT was trading for 26 bucks. I'm wondering if this would be a really good time or a really bad time to buy in.

Keep in mind it's split a few times. I have no idea if it's a good time to buy in, heck I was gonna get some RedHat (RHAT) stock myself and look what happened to it today..hahaha..