Novell Company Profile

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Company Name	Novell
Website	www.novell.com
Snippet	Novell, Inc. /noʊˈvɛl/ was an American software and services company headquartered in Provo, Utah. Its most significant product was the multi-platform network operating system known as Novell NetWare. Under the leadership of chief executive Ray Noorda, NetWare became the dominant form of personal computer networking during the second half of the 1980s and first half of the 1990s. At its high point, NetWare had a 63 percent share of the market for network operating systems and by the early 1990s there were over half a million NetWare-based networks installed worldwide. Novell technology contributed to the emergence of local area networks, which displaced the dominant mainframe computing model and changed computing worldwide. Novell became instrumental in making Utah Valley a focus for technology and software development.
Fate	Acquired by The Attachmate Group, then by Micro Focus International
Type	Private (until 1985)Public (until 2011)Division (until 2014)
Defunct	November 2014 (2014-11)
Founded	1980
Founder	George Canova, Jack Davis
Revenue	$2.0 billion (peak, 1994 and 1995)
Website	www.novell.com
Industry	Computer software
Products	Novell NetWare, Novell GroupWise, Novell Open Enterprise Server, Novell Vibe, Novell ZENworks
Traded as	NASDAQ: NOVL
Key people	Drew Major, Ray Noorda, Craig Burton, Judith Clarke, Kanwal Rekhi, Robert Frankenberg, Eric Schmidt, Jack Messman, Ronald Hovsepian
Headquarters	Provo, Utah, Waltham, Massachusetts
Number of employees	10,150 (peak, 1994)

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