I already did: Novell paid $210m for SuSE, plus $50m they got from IBM. SuSE was always a key (if not the key) KDE "customer" and sponsor, beyond Trolltech. That was big money, back then.
A friend who worked at Suse at the time described Novell's price as a fair price for just the consulting division plus nothing for the rest. I don't remember that $50m or what it paid for.
And just after SuSE was brought almost all the KDE dev working at SuSE got fired.