X-Nico

unusual facts about Novell, Inc.



Arlington Square, Bracknell

The park houses a number of well known companies including Novell, Fujitsu and GMAC.

CIX

It hosted several official online support areas for companies such as Borland and Novell and counted among its subscribers many of the UK's technology journalists (some of them wooed with free accounts), which ensured regular mention in the computing press.

Dennis Fairclough

He was originally associated with Eyring Research Institute (ERI) in Provo, Utah, and was one of the group who left that company to form Novell Data Systems, Inc. in 1979; this company was then purchased by Ray Noorda in 1983 as Novell.

Desert Pines High School

Students enrolled in the academy learn about hardware (CyberCore, tech support, and computer forensics), software (programming, web development, and ORACLE), as well as networks (Cisco, Novell, etc.).

DRDOS

DR-DOS, the successor to DR DOS, PalmDOS, Novell DOS and OpenDOS, but renamed DR-DOS by Caldera in 1998 (residing in C:\DRDOS\)

Ed Tittel

He is a graduate of Princeton University and the University of Texas and worked for American software corporation, Novell from 1987–1994, where his final position was Director of Technical Marketing (1993–1994).

Hardware certification

Big established enterprises like Cisco, Novell, Sun Microsystems etc., no longer manufacture all the hardware required in the market, instead they ‘license’ or ‘certify’ small hardware players operating out from countries like Taiwan or China.

IFolder

On March 22, 2004, after their purchase of the Linux software companies Ximian and SUSE, Novell announced that they were releasing iFolder as an open source project under the GPL license.

Independent software vendor

The companies that make the platforms, such as Microsoft, Cisco, IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Novell, Google, Oracle, Apple, SAP and salesforce.com encourage and lend support to ISVs, often with special "business partner" programs.

Jan Raas

Raas found sponsors when old ones pulled out and the team received backing from SuperConfex, Buckler, WordPerfect, Novell and finally Rabobank.

Joel Dehlin

Prior to working for the LDS Church, he worked at Microsoft for 10 years in various roles, at Arthur Andersen, and at Novell.

Larry Sonsini

He later counseled significant hardware firms such as Sun Microsystems, Apple Computer, Silicon Graphics and Seagate Technology and software companies such as Novell, Sybase and WordPerfect.

Lions' Commentary on UNIX 6th Edition, with Source Code

Various Unix people, particularly Peter H. Salus, Dennis Ritchie and Berny Goodheart, lobbied Unix's various owners (AT&T, Novell, the Santa Cruz Operation) for many years to allow the book to be published officially.

Matrix Partners

Among the firm's notable investments, Matrix Partners was an early stage investor in Apple Inc., Arrowpoint Communications, Digium, JBoss, JustFab, PSINet, SanDisk, Silverstream Software, TheLadders.com, Sonus Networks, Tivoli Software, Tollbridge Technologies, VERITAS Software, Vermeer Technologies Incorporated, and Xilinx.

Message Handling System

MHS was a very 'open' system, and this, with Novell's encouragement, made it popular in the early 1990s as a 'glue' between not only the proprietary email systems of the day such as PROFS, SNADS, MCI, 3+Mail, cc:Mail, Para-Mail and Microsoft Mail, but also the competing standards-based SMTP and X.400.

Michael Cowpland

In 1996, he offered a challenge to Microsoft with a move into productivity software, acquiring WordPerfect from Novell for $158 million.

Novell Embedded Systems Technology

NEST consisted primarily of a Novell protocol driver stack implemented in ANSI C.

Novell exteNd

Novell exteNd, formerly known as SilverStream, was a web application development suite from Novell that was discontinued in 2005.

Novell Identity Manager

NetIQ Identity Manager (a.k.a. IDM) was formerly owned by Novell.

OSI model

Roughly speaking, tunneling protocols operate at the transport layer, such as carrying non-IP protocols such as IBM's SNA or Novell's IPX over an IP network, or end-to-end encryption with IPsec.

Process.h

Most C compilers that target DOS, Windows 3.1x, Win32, OS/2, Novell NetWare or DOS extenders supply this header and the library functions in their C library.

SCO OpenServer

On August 24, 2009, the U.S. 10th Circuit Court of Appeals reversed the 2007 summary judgment of the U.S. District Court for the District of Utah, which found that Novell was the owner of Unix and UnixWare copyrights.

Software Publishing Corporation

Starting with the second versions of the Professional Write, Professional File and Professional Plan trio, a separately-purchased Professional series networking add-on (available in 5-user, 10-user and larger packs) could be obtained so that they could all function in a multi-user local area networking (LAN) environment utilizing rudimentary file locking (but not record locking) via NetBIOS on such as Novell's NetWare, or Banyan VINES.

Sunil Gaitonde

In 1994, he founded Internet Junction, which focused on making Internet connectivity more easily used by Novell users with PCs.

Tomahawk Conference, Ohio, 1958-1960

Ned Novell, the Mogadore coach, contacted Ravenna Township and Garrettsville about whether Windham had used freshmen in their games, and then protested to the state that since Windham had violated Rule 2, Section 2 of the Classification of Schools, they had no right to be classified as Class A. Rather, since they had used freshmen at one point in the season, they could not claim that they were a three-year school, and should be reclassified as Class AA.

TVNorge

In 2003 Novell sued TVNorge at The Court of Enforcement (Namsretten) and asked for a temporary injunction against TVNorge as they found the logo too similar to their own.

Utah Valley

Novell and WordPerfect were instrumental in making the Utah Valley a focus for software development.

Xerox Network Systems

Sequenced Packet Protocol (SPP) was an acknowledged transport protocol, analogous to TCP; one chief technical difference is that the sequence numbers count the packets, and not the bytes as in TCP and PUP's BSP; it was the direct antecedent to Novell's IPX/SPX.


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