The new area was led by Allison Mankin and Scott Bradner, and had a directorate with 15 engineers from diverse backgrounds for direction-setting and preliminary document review: The working-group members were J. Allard ( Microsoft ), Steve Bellovin ( AT & T ), Jim Bound ( Digital Equipment Corporation ), Ross Callon ( Wellfleet ), Brian Carpenter ( CERN ), Dave Clark ( MIT ), John Curran ( NEARNET ), Steve Deering ( Xerox ), Dino Farinacci ( Cisco ), Paul Francis ( NTT ), Eric Fleischmann ( Boeing ), Mark Knopper ( Ameritech ), Greg Minshall ( Novell ), Rob Ullmann ( Lotus ), and Lixia Zhang ( Xerox ).

" Novell criticized Microsoft's Active Directory, the new directory service architecture, as less scalable or reliable than its own Novell Directory Services ( NDS ) alternative.

On 2 October 2007, Michael Meeks announced a derived OpenOffice. org work, under the wing of his employer Novell, with the purpose of including new features and fixes that do not get easily integrated in the OOo-build up-stream core.

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 / FAT filesystem used by earlier versions of NetWare.

In October 2000, Novell released a new product, dubbed DirXML, which was designed to synchronize data, often user information, between disparate directory and database systems.

A new clause will let companies like Novell 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 ).

After Novell responded by denying they had sold copyrights to SCO, SCO filed a new lawsuit, SCO v. Novell, alleging slander of title, and later other claims.

Shortly before the release of the Borland product, Novell AppBuilder was released, leaving Borland in need of a new product name.

In 1993, Novell purchased USL from AT & T and merged USL and Univel into a new Unix Systems Group.

Under Noorda's watch, Novell acquired several companies and products with the goal of countering Microsoft's rapid spread into new markets, including Digital Research, Unix System Laboratories, WordPerfect, and Borland's Quattro Pro.

In late February 2007, Novell sold Netmail source code to Messaging Architects, which has since release a new version.

The Novell OpenOffice. org team, led by Michael Meeks, managed to create reasonably solid support for VBA macros in Microsoft Excel documents, and a new spreadsheet feature called " Data Pilot " which offers compatibility with Microsoft Excel Pivot Tables.

Dennis Fairclough was the original founder of Novell, when Ray Noorda came to Novell Dennis was dismissed in a route to build upon a new future for Novell.

* 2006 – Raymond Noorda, American co-founder and long time CEO of Novell ( b. 1924 )

Fairclough was the original founder of Novell, who was dismissed when Ray Noorda came to Novell.

In January 1983, the company's name was shortened to Novell, Inc., and Raymond Noorda became the head of the firm.

Late in 1994, Novell CEO Raymond Noorda resigned.

Noorda ran Novell until 1993.

In 1983, Raymond Noorda took over leadership of Novell and engaged the work by the SuperSet crew.

However, Noorda was soon forced from Novell in 1994, and many of the companies and products he had purchased were quickly sold off.

WordPerfect was then bought by Novell.

Digital Research produced a compatible variant known as DR DOS, which was eventually taken over ( after a buyout of Digital Research ) by Novell, then by Caldera.

Windows NT version 3. 51 was Microsoft's entry into this field, and took away market share from Novell ( the dominant player ) in the following years.

In August 2003, Ximian was acquired by Novell.

In May 2011, de Icaza started Xamarin to replace MonoTouch and Mono for Android after Novell was bought by Attachmate and the projects were abandoned.

Management over these specifications was assigned to X / Open who also received the Unix trademark from Novell in 1993.

ReiserFS was the default file system in Novell's SUSE Linux Enterprise until Novell decided to move to ext3 on October 12, 2006 for future releases.

During the 1980s XNS was used by 3Com and, with modifications, by a number of other commercial systems which became more common than XNS itself, including Ungermann-Bass Net / One, Novell NetWare, and Banyan VINES.

Ximian ( previously called Helix Code, and originally announced as International Gnome Support ) was founded by Miguel de Icaza and Nat Friedman in October, 1999, and was bought by Novell on August 4, 2003.

Its predecessor was WordPerfect Suite, assembled by Novell in 1994 and sold to Corel in 1996.

In these forms GEM survived until DRI was purchased by Novell and all GEM development was cancelled.

Digital Research was purchased by Novell in 1991, primarily for Novell to gain access to the operating system line.

Borland sold the spreadsheet to Novell six months before the final decision was handed down.

Novell was going to try to be a real competitor to Microsoft.

The release of Windows 95 in August 1995 was the beginning of the end for Novell and its plans to compete with Microsoft.

) Also, Microsoft was able to take over most of the networking market ( formerly the domain of Lantastic and Novell ) with Windows NT, and the business application market ( formerly led by Lotus and WordPerfect ) with Microsoft Office.

In 1996 it acquired Novell WordPerfect and started competing with the thought of being " Pepsi to Microsoft's Coke " as Microsoft Word was the top-used word processing software at the time.

He also maintained GIMP for a time, and was one of the first hires at Ximian, now owned by Novell, where he still works.

Nathaniel Dourif Friedman ( born August 6, 1977 ), known as Nat, is a programmer who co-founded Ximian along with Miguel de Icaza in 1999, a company that was later bought by Novell in 2003.

At Novell, Friedman was the Chief Technology and Strategy Officer for Open Source until January 2010, when he began an extensive world trip with his wife for more than a year.

Other well known CTI standards in the industry are JTAPI, TSAPI and TAPI: JTAPI, the Java Telephony API is promoted by Sun ; TSAPI, originally promoted by the AT & T ( later Lucent then Avaya ) and Novell, by far the most adopted in large scale contact centers ; Microsoft pushed their own initiative also, and thus TAPI was born, with support mostly from Windows applications.