. Website Novell, Inc. Was a software and services company headquartered in. Its most significant product was the multi- known as, which became the dominant form of personal computer networking during the second half of the 1980s and first half of the 1990s.
Novell technology contributed to the emergence of, which displaced the dominant model and changed computing worldwide. Novell became instrumental in making a focus for technology and software development. Under the leadership of founder, during the early- to mid-1990s Novell attempted to compete directly with by acquiring, and the division of. These moves did not work out, and NetWare began losing market share once Microsoft bundled network services with the operating system and its successors.
Despite new products such as and, Novell entered a long period of decline. Eventually Novell acquired and attempted to refocus its technology base. The company was an independent corporate entity until it was acquired as a wholly owned subsidiary by in 2011, which in turn was acquired in 2014. Novell products and technologies are now integrated within various Micro Focus divisions. Novell's chief scientist was Drew Major, here seen later in his career The company began in 1979 in as Novell Data Systems Inc. ( NDSI), a manufacturer producing -based systems. Former (ERI) employee was a member of the original team.
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It was co-founded by George Canova, Darin Field, and Jack Davis. Vurpillat brought the deal to, chairman of the board of Safeguard Scientifics, Inc., who provided the seed funding. The company initially did not do well. The microcomputer produced by the company was comparatively weak against performance by competitors. In order to compete on systems sales Novell Data Systems planned a program to link more than one microcomputer to operate together. The former ERI employees, Dale Neibaur and Kyle Powell, known as the group, were hired to this task.
At ERI, Fairclough, Major, Neibaur and Powell had worked on government contracts for the Intelligent Systems Technology Project, and thereby gained an important insight into the and related technologies, ideas which would become crucial to the foundation of Novell. Novell retained some hardware products even after NetWare became a success; here, a Novell NE2000 16-bit ISA 10Base-2 Ethernet card from 1990 The Safeguard board then ordered Musser to shut Novell down. Musser contacted two Safeguard investors and investment bankers, Barry Rubenstein and Fred Dolin, who guaranteed to raise the necessary funds to continue the business as a software company as Novell Data Systems' networking program could work on computers from other companies. Davis left Novell Data Systems in November 1981, followed by Canova in March 1982.
Rubinstein and Dolin, along with Jack Messman, interviewed and hired. The required funding was obtained through a rights offering to Safeguard shareholders, managed by the Cleveland brokerage house, Prescott, Ball and Turben, and guaranteed by Rubenstein and Dolin.
Major, Neibaur and Powell continued to support Novell through their Software Group. In January 1983, the company's name was shortened to 'Novell, Inc.' , and Noorda became the head of the firm. Later that same year, the company introduced its most significant product, the multi- (NOS),. Novell's Building F in Provo in 1994, part of a large complex of Novell buildings once there, with the Wasatch Range in the background The first Novell product was a proprietary hardware server based on the supporting six ports per board for a maximum of four boards per server using a with cabling. A (NIC) was developed for the IBM PC (ISA) bus. The server was using the first (NOS) called (aka S-Net).
Later, ShareNet was ported to run on the platform and renamed NetWare. The first commercial release of NetWare was version 1.5.
Novell based its on (XNS), and created its own standards from IDP and SPP, which it named (IPX) and (SPX). File and print services ran on the (NCP) over IPX, as did (RIP) and (SAP). Novell had acquired 's company in 1989, which manufactured smart cards and commercialized the Internet protocol, solidifying Novell's presence in these niche areas.
Novell did extremely well throughout the 1980s. It aggressively expanded its market share by selling its expensive Ethernet cards at cost. By 1990, Novell had an almost position in NOS for any business requiring a network. With this market leadership, Novell began to acquire and build services on top of its NetWare operating platform.
These services extended NetWare's capabilities with such products as NetWare for SAA, Novell multi-protocol router,. Beyond NetWare However, Novell was also diversifying, moving away from its smaller users to target large corporations, although the company later attempted to refocus with NetWare for Small Business. It reduced investment in research and was slow to improve the product administration tools, although it was helped by the fact its products typically needed little 'tweaking' — they just ran.
The WordPerfect building in Orem, Utah, with Novell signage, in 1994 Under Noorda, Novell made a series of acquisitions interpreted by many to be a challenge to. Novell acquired in June 1991. NetWare used as a boot loader and maintenance platform, and Novell intended to extend its desktop presence by integrating networking into DR DOS and providing an alternative to Microsoft's Windows. At first, the idea was to provide a graphical environment based on Digital Research's, but Novell's legal department rejected this due to apprehension of a possible legal response from Apple, so the company went directly to Apple starting in February 1992, a project to run an x86-port of their on top of a multitasking DR DOS. On the server side, after their initial October 1991 initiative Novell bought (USL) from in 1993, acquiring rights to the operating system for their. One of Novell's major innovations at the time was Novell Directory Services (NDS), now known as. Introduced with in 1993, NDS replaced the old Bindery server and user management technology employed by and earlier.
In 1994 Novell announced plans to develop a based on. In 1994, Novell also bought, as well as acquiring from. As Novell faced new competition, Noorda was replaced by in April 1994.
The Noorda-era acquisitions were short-lived: Novell had already abandoned Digital Research's in 1992. The three former Master (VARs), and could license the source code to take over and continue independent development of their derivations in 1994. Digital Research's had been licensed to for their in 1993 and was also utilized for the in-house development of (NEST), but was sold off to, Inc. (ISI) for 3,000,000 in July 1994. The deal comprised a direct payment of half this sum as well as shares representing 2% of the company. Novell also abandoned their desktop project and in late 1994 transferred some components to, a startup funded by Noorda's. In 1995, Novell assigned portions of its Unix business to the.
WordPerfect and Quattro Pro were sold to in January 1996. (and all former versions including, and ) as well as other remaining Digital Research assets (like and the - and -based operating systems, programming languages, tools and technologies) were sold to on 23 July 1996. Had been abandoned at Novell in 1995 but was licensed to Caldera in binary form only.
The deal consisted of a direct payment of US$400,000 as well as percentual royalties for any revenues derived from those assets to Novell. In January 1997, Novell's initiative was abandoned as well. In 1996, the company began a move into Internet-enabled products, replacing reliance on the proprietary IPX protocol in favor of a native TCP/IP stack. The move was accelerated when became CEO in 1997, succeeding Frankenberg, who had resigned the previous year; Christopher Stone was brought in as senior vice president of strategy and corporate development, reporting to Schmidt. The result was NetWare v5.0, released in October 1998, which leveraged and built upon eDirectory and introduced new functions, such as Novell Cluster Services (NCS, a replacement for SFT-III) and Novell Storage Services (NSS), a replacement for the traditional filesystem used by earlier versions of NetWare.
While NetWare v5.0 introduced native TCP/IP support into the NOS, IPX was still supported, allowing for smooth transitions between environments and avoiding the 'forklift upgrades' frequently required by competing environments. Similarly, the traditional Turbo FAT file system remained a supported option. Decline The inclusion of as a core system component in all mainstream PC operating systems after 1995 led to a steep decline in Novell's market share. Unlike and its predecessors, and all included network functionality which greatly reduced demand for third-party products in this segment.
Eric Schmidt, CEO of Novell from 1997 to 2001 Novell's decline and loss of market share accelerated under 's leadership, with Novell experiencing an across-the-board decline in sales and purchases of NetWare and a drop in share price from 40.00/share to US$7.00/share. Analysts commented that the primary reason for Novell's demise was linked to its channel strategy and mismanagement of channel partners under Schmidt. Under Ray Noorda's leadership, Novell provided upgrades to resellers and customers in the same packaging as a newly purchased copy of NetWare, but at one third the cost, which created a 'gray market' that allowed NetWare resellers to sell upgrades as newly purchased NetWare versions at full price periodically, which Novell intentionally did not track.
Ray Noorda commented to several analysts that he devised this strategy to allow front line resellers to 'punch through' the distributors like Tech Data and Ingram and acquire NetWare versions at a discounted rate, as Novell 'looked the other way'; this helped fund the salaries of Novell Field Support Technicians, who for the most part were employees who worked for the front line resellers as Novell CNE (Certified NetWare Engineers). Noorda commented that this strategy was one he learned as an executive at when competing against imported home appliances: allow the resellers to 'make more money off your product than someone else's'. Eric Schmidt embarked on a disastrous strategy to remove the upgrades as whole box products without understanding Novell's channel dynamics, then directed Novell's general counsel to initiate litigation against a large number of Novell resellers who were routinely selling upgrades as newly purchased NetWare versions.
Although this move bolstered Novell's revenue numbers for several quarters, Novell's channels subsequently collapsed with the majority of Novell's resellers dropping NetWare for fear of litigation. By 1999, Novell had lost its dominant market position, and was continually being out-marketed by as resellers dropped NetWare, allowing Microsoft to gain access to corporate data centers by bypassing technical staff and selling directly to corporate executives. Most resellers then re-certified their Novell CNE employees— the field support technicians who were Novell's primary contact in the field with direct customers—as Microsoft technicians, and were encouraged to position NetWare as inferior to features such as Group Policy and Microsoft's, which was considered to be more modern than the character-based Novell interfaces. With falling revenue, the company focused on net services and platform interoperability. Products such as eDirectory and GroupWise were made multi-platform. In October 2000, Novell released a new product, dubbed 'DirXML', which was designed to synchronize data—typically user information—between disparate directory and database systems. This product leveraged the speed and functionality of eDirectory to store information, and would later become the, forming the foundation of a core product set within Novell.
Cambridge Technology Partners. In the early 2000s Novell moved its headquarters to this building in Waltham, Massachusetts, following the acquisition of Cambridge Technology Partners In July 2001, Novell acquired the consulting company (CTP), founded in by, 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. The merger was apparently against the firm's software development culture, and the finance personnel at the firm also recommended against it. The CEO of CTP, Jack Messman, engineered the merger using his position as a board member of Novell since its inception, and as part of the deal became CEO of Novell. Chris Stone, who had left in 1999, was rehired as vice chairman to set the course for Novell's strategy into open source and enterprise. With the acquisition of CTP, Novell moved its headquarters to.
In July 2002, Novell acquired SilverStream Software, a leader in web services-oriented applications, but a laggard in the marketplace. Renamed to, the platform comprised and tools based on. SuSE Linux headquarters and Novell office in Nuremberg in 2007 In August 2003, Novell acquired, a developer of applications (, and ).
This acquisition signaled Novell's plans to move its collective product set onto a. In November 2003, Novell acquired Linux OS developer, which led to a major shift of power in Linux distributions.
Also invested US$50 million to show support of the SuSE acquisition. In mid-2003, Novell released 'Novell Enterprise Linux Services' (NNLS), which ported some of the services traditionally associated with to (SLES) version 8. In November 2004, Novell released the Linux-based enterprise desktop v9, based on Ximian Desktop and SUSE Linux Professional 9.1. This was Novell's first attempt to get into the enterprise desktop market. The successor product to, was released in March 2005. OES offers all the services previously hosted by v6.5, and added the choice of delivering those services using either a v6.5 or v9 kernel. The release was aimed to persuade customers to move to Linux.
In August 2005, Novell created the project, based on SUSE Professional. OpenSUSE can be downloaded freely and is also available as boxed retail product.
Stagnation. Novell with SuSE at a Linux trade show in 2004 From 2003 through 2005 Novell released many products across its portfolio, with the intention of arresting falling market share and to move away from dependencies on other Novell products, but the launches were not as successful as Novell had hoped. In late 2004, Chris Stone again left the company, after an apparent control issue with then CEO Jack Messman.
In an effort to cut costs, Novell announced a round of layoffs in late 2005. While revenue from its Linux business continued to grow, the growth was not fast enough to offset the decrease in revenue of. While the company's revenue was not falling rapidly, it wasn't growing, either.
Lack of clear direction or effective management meant that Novell took longer than expected to complete its restructuring. In June 2006, chief executive Jack Messman and chief finance officer Joseph Tibbetts were fired, with, Novell's president and chief operating officer, appointed chief executive, and Dana Russell, vice-president of finance and corporate controller, appointed interim CFO. 'Your Linux is Ready' In August 2006, Novell released the SUSE Linux Enterprise 10 (SLE 10) series. SUSE Linux Enterprise Server was the first enterprise class Linux server to offer virtualization based on the hypervisor. SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop (popularly known as SLED) featured a new user-friendly GUI and -based 3D display capabilities. The release of SLE 10 was marketed with the phrase 'Your Linux is Ready', meant to convey that Novell's Linux offerings were ready for the enterprise.
In late September 2006 Novell announced a version of SLES called 'SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time' (SLERT), based on technology from. Agreement with Microsoft In 2004, Novell sued, asserting it had engaged in antitrust violations regarding Novell's business in 1994 through 1996. Novell's lawsuit was subsequently dismissed by the United States District Court in July 2012 after it concluded that the claims were without merit. On November 2, 2006, the two companies announced a joint collaboration agreement, including coverage of their respective products for each other's customers. They also promised to work more closely to improve compatibility of software, setting up a joint research facility. Executives of both companies expressed the hope that such cooperation would lead to better compatibility between and and better techniques.
Microsoft CEO said of the deal, 'This set of agreements will really help bridge the divide between open-source and proprietary source software.' The deal involved upfront payment of US$348 million from Microsoft to Novell for patent cooperation and subscription.
Additionally, Microsoft agreed to spend around US$46 million yearly, over the next 5 years, for marketing and selling a combined SLES/Windows Server offering and related virtualization solutions, while Novell paid at least US$40 million yearly to Microsoft, in the same period. One of the first results of this partnership was Novell adapting the for use in OpenOffice.org. Microsoft released two public covenants not to sue users of the open source runtime—a workalike for the rich media platform—for patent infringement. One condition common to each covenant was that no Moonlight implementation be released under the free software license. Reaction of FOSS community Initial reaction from members of the community over the patent protection was mostly critical, with expressions of concern that Novell had 'sold out' and doubt that the would allow distribution of code, including the Linux kernel, under this exclusive agreement.
In a letter to the FOSS development community on November 9, 2006, CTO of the (SFLC), described the agreement as 'worse than useless'. In a separate development, the chairman of the SFLC, reported that Novell had offered cooperation with the SFLC to permit a confidential audit to determine the compliance of the agreement with the GPL (version 2)., founder of the, said in November 2006 that changes coming with version 3 of the GPL would preclude such deals. When the final revision of the third version of the GPL license was decided, the deal between Microsoft and Novell was in. A clause within GPLv3 allows companies to distribute GPLv3 software even if they have made such patent partnerships in the past, as long as the partnership deal was made before March 28, 2007 (GPLv3 Section 11 paragraph 7 ). On November 12, 2006, the team expressed strong disapproval of the announcement and asked Novell to reconsider. The team included an employee of Novell, who confirmed in a comment on that the statement was agreed on by all members of the team, and later quit his job at Novell in protest.
In early February 2007, Reuters reported that the Free Software Foundation had announced that it was reviewing Novell's right to sell Linux versions, and was considering banning Novell from selling Linux. However, spokesman Eben Moglen later said that he was quoted out of context, and was only noting that GPL version 3 would be designed to block similar deals in the future. Intelligent workload management In December 2009, Novell announced its intention to lead the market in, with products designed to manage diverse workloads in a heterogeneous data center. Acquisition by Attachmate.
While Novell was no longer an independent company after 2011, it (along with WordPerfect) was instrumental in making the Utah Valley a focus for software development, and its legacy resides in the area having many small companies whose employees previously worked at Novell Novell had long been rumored to be a target for acquisition by a variety of other companies. In March 2010, L.P., an institutional investor with approximately 8.5% stock ownership of Novell, offered to acquire the company for US$5.75 per share in cash, or US$1 billion. The company declined the offer, saying that the proposal was inadequate and that it undervalued the company's franchise and growth prospects. Novell announced in November 2010 that it had agreed to be acquired by for US$2.2 billion, and planned to operate Novell as two units, one being. As part of the deal, 882 owned by Novell were sold to LLC, a consortium of companies led by and including,. According to Novell's SEC filing, the patents 'relate primarily to enterprise-level computer systems management software, enterprise-level file management and collaboration software in addition to patents relevant to our identity and security management business, although it is possible that certain of such issued patents and patent applications read on a range of different software products'. Attachmate expressed in advance of the deal closing that there would no change to the relationship between the SUSE business and the openSUSE project.
The merger completed in April 2011, with Attachmate paying US$6.10 per share in cash to acquire Novell. Novell became a wholly owned subsidiary of The Attachmate Group, the parent company of Attachmate Corporation. Concurrent with the closing of the acquisition, some of Novell's products and brands were transferred to another of business units, and the brand was spun off as its own business unit. The fourth business unit, was not directly affected by the acquisition. CPTN Holdings agreement Immediately prior to merger being finalized, Novell completed the patent sale to CPTN Holdings for US$450 million. (1986). Cache Data Product (1986).
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