Novell, Inc.
 | | Type | Public (NASDAQ: NOVL) | | Founded | Provo, Utah (1983) | | Location | Waltham, Massachusetts, USA | | Key people | Jack Messman, Chairman and CEO
Ron Hovsepian, COO and President
Bill Hewitt, Senior Vice President, CMO
Joseph S. Tibbetts, Jr., Senior Vice President, CFO | | Industry | Software | | Slogan | open, secure, and global | | Products | Novell eDirectory
Novell Open Enterprise Server
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Novell NetWare
Novell Linux Desktop
Novell GroupWise
Novell ZENworks
Novell Identity Manager
Novell iChain
Novell exteNd
| | Revenue |
 $1.166 billion USD (2004) | | Employees | ~6000 (2005) | | Website | www.novell.com | - Novell was also the name of a road bicycle racing team.
Novell, Inc. NASDAQ: NOVL (Big Red) is an American high-technology corporation specializing in network operating systems such as Novell NetWare and Linux, secure identity management products, and application integration and collaboration solutions. Together with WordPerfect, Novell was instrumental in making the Utah Valley a focus for high-technology software development. Today this area has many small companies whose employees have previously worked at Novell. As per a recent ranking, Novell is the 22nd largest software company in the world. This is a copyrighted and/or trademarked logo. ...
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Novell eDirectory (formerly called Novell Directory Services) is an X.500 compatible directory service software product released in 1993 by Novell, Inc. ...
Novell Open Enterprise Server (OES) is a network software product by Novell, Inc. ...
SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server (SLES) is a Linux distribution supplied by Novell, targeted at the business market. ...
NetWare is a network operating system developed by Novell, Inc. ...
Novell Linux Desktop is a desktop-oriented Linux distribution supplied by Novell, Inc. ...
GroupWise is a collaborative software product from Novell, Inc. ...
Novell ZENworks is a software product suite developed and maintained by Novell, Inc. ...
Novell exteNd is a web application development suite from Novell that provides a visual environment that simplifies the development and deployment of business solutions that exploit existing systems. ...
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NetWare is a network operating system developed by Novell, Inc. ...
Tux, a cartoon penguin frequently featured sitting, is the official Linux mascot. ...
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History
The company began in Provo, Utah as Novell Data Systems Inc. in 1979, a hardware manufacturer producing CP/M based systems. It was co-founded by George Canova, Darin Field and Jack Davis. Victor V. Vurpillat brought the deal to Pete Musser Chairman of the Board, Safeguard Scientifics who provided the seed funding. The company initially did not do well and both Jack and George left the firm. Provo, Utah. ...
This page refers to the year 1979. ...
Hardware is the general term that is used to describe physical artifacts of a technology. ...
Manufacturing is the transformation of raw materials into finished goods for sale, or intermediate processes involving the production or finishing of semi-manufactures. ...
CP/M is an operating system created for Intel 8080/85 and Zilog Z80 based microcomputers by Gary Kildall of Digital Research, Inc. ...
Etymology The name for the company Novell was suggested by George Canova's wife who mistakenly thought that "Novell" meant "new" in French.
NetWare In January 1983, the company was renamed Novell Inc., and Raymond Noorda became the head of the firm. Also in 1983, the company introduced its most significant product, the multi-platform network operating system (NOS), Novell NetWare. January is the first month of the year in the Gregorian Calendar and one of seven Gregorian months with the length of 31 days. ...
1983 (MCMLXXXIII) is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Raymond Noorda (born 1924) was a U.S. computer businessman. ...
In computing, a platform describes some sort of framework, either in hardware or software, which allows software to run. ...
Network operating system (NOS): Software that (a) controls a network and its message (e. ...
NetWare is a network operating system developed by Novell, Inc. ...
Novell based its network protocol on XNS, and created its own standards from IDP and SPP, which it named IPX (Internet Packet eXchange) and SPX (Sequenced Packet eXchange). File and print services ran on the NetWare Core Protocol (NCP) over IPX, as did Routing Information Protocol (RIP) and Service Advertising Protocol (SAP). To accompany this, Novell touted Novell DOS (formerly DR-DOS), similar to MS-DOS; this came from the acquisition of Digital Research in 1991. Early versions of NetWare were somewhat notorious for presenting the administrator with an ABEND. In networking, a communications protocol or network protocol is the specification of a set of rules for a particular type of communication. ...
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The NetWare Core Protocol (NCP) is a network protocol used in some products from Novell, Inc. ...
DR-DOS is an DOS-family-compatible operating system for IBM PC-compatible personal computers, originally developed by Gary Kildalls Digital Research and derived from CP/M-86. ...
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1991 (MCMXCI) is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
An ABEND (or abnormal end or abend) is an abnormal termination of software, a Crash or lossage. ...
Novell did extremely well throughout the 1980s, acting aggressively to increase the market initially by selling the expensive ethernet cards at cost; by 1990, Novell had an almost monopolistic position in NOS for any business requiring a network. Ethernet is a frame-based computer networking technology for local area networks (LANs). ...
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Beyond NetWare However, Novell was also diversifying unwisely, moving away from its smaller users to target large corporations, underinvesting in research and leaving their key product opaque and difficult to control and administer. In 1993, the company bought Unix System Laboratories from AT&T, giving them rights to the Unix operating system, apparently in an attempt to strike at Microsoft. In 1994 Novell then bought WordPerfect, as well as the Quattro Pro product from Borland. These acquisitions did not last: Unix was sold to SCO in 1995, and WordPerfect and Quattro Pro were sold together to Corel in 1996. DR was also sold to Caldera Systems in 1996. 1993 (MCMXCIII) is a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and marked the Beginning of the International Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination (1993-2003). ...
UNIX Systems Laboratories or USL was originally organized as part of Bell Labs in 1989. ...
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1994 (MCMXCIV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International year of the Family. ...
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1996 (MCMXCVI) is a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty. ...
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1996 (MCMXCVI) is a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty. ...
As Novell's performance faded in the face of new competition, Noorda was pushed out in 1994 and in around 1996 the company began a belated move into internet-enabled products, ditching the proprietary network protocol in favor of native IP. The move was accelerated when Eric Schmidt became CEO in 1997, and the result was NetWare 5 and the associated directory services through Novell Directory Services. With falling revenues, the company pushed hard at net services and platform interoperability. 1996 (MCMXCVI) is a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty. ...
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A directory service is a software application, or set of applications, which stores and organizes information about a network and its resources -- such as users, files, printers, servers, and applications -- and allows administrators to manage access to these resources. ...
Novell eDirectory (formerly called Novell Directory Services) is an X.500 compatible directory service software product released in 1993 by Novell, Inc. ...
In July 2001, Novell acquired the consulting company Cambridge Technology Partners, to expand offerings into services. Novell felt that the ability to offer solutions (a combination of software and services) was key to satisfying customer demand. This change was strongly resisted within the firm's software development culture as well as the finance organization which recommended against the merger. The CEO of CTP, Jack Messman, engineered the merger using his position as a board member of Novell since its inception. He soon became CEO of Novell as well. July is the seventh month of the year in the Gregorian Calendar and one of seven Gregorian months with the length of 31 days. ...
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In July 2002, Novell acquired SilverStream Software, a leader in Web services-oriented application development, but a laggard in the marketplace. The business area called Novell exteNd contains XML and Web Service tools based on J2EE. July is the seventh month of the year in the Gregorian Calendar and one of seven Gregorian months with the length of 31 days. ...
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Novell exteNd is a web application development suite from Novell that provides a visual environment that simplifies the development and deployment of business solutions that exploit existing systems. ...
The Extensible Markup Language (XML) is a W3C-recommended general-purpose markup language for creating special-purpose markup languages, capable of describing many different kinds of data. ...
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Linux for Business In August 2003, Novell acquired Ximian, a developer of open source Linux applications (Evolution, Red Carpet and Mono). This is significant, because Novell now plans to move its NetWare product to the Linux kernel by the time of its next release. Note: as an adjective (stressed on the second syllable instead of the first), august means honorable. ...
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Ximian was a company that provided open source desktop applications for Linux and UNIX based on the GNOME platform. ...
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Tux, a cartoon penguin frequently featured sitting, is the official Linux mascot. ...
NetWare is a network operating system and the set of network protocols it uses to talk to client machines on the network. ...
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In November 2003, Novell acquired SUSE, a developer of a leading Linux distribution, which could lead to a major balance of power in Linux distributions, now that IBM is also in the game. IBM invested $50 million to show support of the SUSE acquisition. SUSE Linux became commercial, but Novell has released an Open Source Software version of the OS called OpenSUSE. The latest version is 10. For other uses, see November (disambiguation). ...
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SUSE (properly pronounced , but often pronounced /suzi/) is a major retail Linux distribution, produced in Germany. ...
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SUSE (properly pronounced , but often pronounced /suzi/) is a major retail Linux distribution, produced in Germany. ...
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In summer 2003, Novell released "Novell Nterprise Linux Services", expanding its NetWare services to SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 8. 2003 (MMIII) is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
NetWare is a network operating system and the set of network protocols it uses to talk to client machines on the network. ...
SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server (SLES) is a Linux distribution supplied by Novell, targeted at the business market. ...
In July 2004, Novell acquired Salmon, a UK-based IT consultancy firm, in order to strengthen its consultancy delivery capabilities in Europe and the UK. July is the seventh month of the year in the Gregorian Calendar and one of seven Gregorian months with the length of 31 days. ...
2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
In Nov 2004, Novell released the enterprise desktop Novell Linux Desktop 9 based on SUSE Linux Professional 9.1. November is also the letter N in the NATO phonetic alphabet. ...
2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Novell Linux Desktop is a desktop-oriented Linux distribution supplied by Novell, Inc. ...
In March 2005, Novell released the "Open Enterprise Server" which offers all services from NetWare 6.5 on either a NetWare or SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9 kernel. March is the third month of the year in the Gregorian Calendar and one of seven Gregorian months with the length of 31 days. ...
2005 (MMV) is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Novell Open Enterprise Server (OES) is a network software product by Novell, Inc. ...
NetWare is a network operating system and the set of network protocols it uses to talk to client machines on the network. ...
SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server (SLES) is a Linux distribution supplied by Novell, targeted at the business market. ...
In September 2005, Novell released "ZENworks 7" which offers automated identity-driven resource management to deploy, manage and maintain IT resources in diverse IT environments. September is the ninth month of the year in the Gregorian Calendar and one of four Gregorian months with 30 days. ...
2005 (MMV) is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
ZENworks is a software product suite developed and maintained by Novell, with the purpose of managing the entire lifecycle of servers, desktop PCs (both Windows-based and Linux-based), laptops, and handheld devices (such as PDAs). ...
In October 2005, Novell announced the availability of Novell eDirectory 8.8 October is the tenth month of the year in the Gregorian Calendar and one of seven Gregorian months with the length of 31 days. ...
2005 (MMV) is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Novell eDirectory (formerly called Novell Directory Services) is an X.500 compatible directory service software product released in 1993 by Novell, Inc. ...
See also SUSE (properly pronounced , but often pronounced /suzi/) is a major retail Linux distribution, produced in Germany. ...
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After The SCO Group initiated their Linux campaign, they made several statements that they were the owners of Unix. ...
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