Novell, Inc. was an American software and services company headquartered in Provo, Utah, that existed from 1980 until 2014. Its most significant product was NetWare, a multi-platform network operating system, which under chief executive Ray Noorda became the dominant form of personal computer networking in the second half of the 1980s and the first half of the 1990s. At its high point NetWare held a 63 percent share of the market for network operating systems. Novell was the second-largest maker of software for personal computers, behind only Microsoft, and it acquired Digital Research, Unix System Laboratories, WordPerfect and the Quattro Pro division of Borland.
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Novell, Inc. () was an American software and services company headquartered in Provo, Utah, that existed from 1980 until 2014.
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Led By: Ray Noorda, Lead sentence: chief executive of Novell between 1982 and 1994View the Source Wikipedia: Eric Schmidt
Led By: Eric Schmidt, Second paragraph: chief executive officer of Novell from 1997 to 2001View the Source Wikipedia: Robert Frankenberg
Led By: Robert Frankenberg, Lead sentence: chairman and chief executive officer of Novell in the mid-1990sView the Source Reader Challenges (0)
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