About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 39. Chapters: Red Hat, Lycoris, Ximian, Progeny Linux Systems, Novell, Geeknet, Xandros, Canonical Ltd., MontaVista, Linux Game Publishing, Mandriva, Wind River Systems, Loki Software, Open-Xchange, Nitix, Fluendo, ThoughtWorks, TransGaming Technologies, Agorum core, Sunwah - PearL Linux, Linux Professional Institute, LinuxFund, CodeWeavers, Booyo, LynuxWorks, CGram Software, Lisog, Myriad Group, TimeSys, Fixstars Solutions, Linuxgruven, Vyatta, DeepRootLinux, Collabora, Everything Linux, Eazel, Tribsoft, IGIOS, Igalia, EmperorLinux, Concurrent Computer Corporation, Ransom Love, P.I.S.D., KOAN, Reptile Consulting & Services, SYSGO, Linuxcare, Levanta. Excerpt: Novell, Inc. (pronounced;) is a multinational software and services company. It is a wholly owned subsidiary of The Attachmate Group. It specializes in network operating systems, such as Novell NetWare; systems management solutions, such as Novell ZENworks; and collaboration solutions, such as Novell Groupwise and Novell Vibe. Novell was instrumental in making the Utah Valley a focus for technology and software development. Novell technology contributed to the emergence of local area networks, which displaced the dominant mainframe computing model and changed computing worldwide. Today, a primary focus of the company is on developing open source software for enterprise clients. Novell owes its beginnings to the Eyring Research Institute (ERI) in Provo, Utah. Dennis Fairclough, Drew Major, Dale Neibaur and Kyle Powell left ERI and took with them the experience and technology to found Novell. Fairclough was the member of the original team that started Novell Data Systems. Major, Neibaur and Powell went on to form SuperSet Software. Fairclough was the original founder of Novell, when Ray Noorda came to Novell, who was dismissed in a route to build upon a new future for Novell...
