In August 2003, Ximian was acquired by Novell.

Attachmate acquired Novell in April 2011.

In July 1994, Integrated Systems acquired Digital Research's modular real-time multi-tasking operating system FlexOS from Novell.

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.

* WordPerfectA word processing program acquired from Novell, and originally produced by Satellite Software International.

Novell had already acquired Kanwal Rekhi's company Excelan, which manufactured smart ethernet cards and commercialized the internet protocol TCP / IP, solidifying Novell's presence in these niche areas.

Tittel took up various positions within the newly acquired Excelan, becoming national marketing manager for Novell, before being named as Novell's director of technical marketing.

In July 2001, Novell acquired the consulting company, Cambridge Technology Partners, founded in Cambridge, MA by John J. Donovan, to expand offerings into services.

In July 2002, Novell acquired SilverStream Software, a leader in web services-oriented application, but a laggard in the marketplace.

In August 2003, Novell acquired Ximian, a developer of open source Linux applications ( Evolution, Red Carpet and Mono ).

In November 2003, Novell acquired SuSE, a developer of a leading Linux distribution, which led to a major shift of power in Linux distributions.

Novell announced in November 2010 that it had agreed to be acquired by Attachmate for $ 2. 2 billion.

* All of the Novell patents will be acquired subject to the GNU General Public License, Version 2, a widely adopted open-source license, and the Open Invention Network ( OIN ) License, a significant license for the Linux System ;

In 1995, SCO acquired the AT & T UNIX System V source code from Novell and eventually became the licensor for UNIX.

SCO also acquired the UnixWare operating system from Novell, at which time it renamed SCO UNIX as SCO OpenServer.

In 1995 The Santa Cruz Operation ( SCO ) acquired UnixWare from Novell.

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.

One of its holdings, Caldera, purchased the Unix assets in 1995 from the Santa Cruz Operation, which had acquired them from Novell.

In 1996 it also acquired the Digital Research assets from Novell and immediately brought a lawsuit against Microsoft that largely duplicated the claims that the Federal Trade Commission ( FTC ) and Department of Justice had pursued in the early 1990s.

On May 10, 2005, Novell acquired Immunix, Inc., a long-time partner with Novell.

Novell, a vendor of proprietary network operating systems, acquired the rights to the original Unix source code when it purchased Unix System Laboratories from Unix's creator, AT & T, on June 14, 1993.

Novell announced in November 2010 that it had agreed to be acquired by Attachmate for $ 2. 2 billion.

After USL were acquired by Novell, a settlement was reached in January 1994.

Selling DRI to Novell had made Kildall a wealthy man, and he moved to the West Lake Hills suburb of Austin.

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.

Novell DOS is similar to MS-DOS and IBM PC-DOS, but no extra license for DOS is required ; this came from the acquisition of Digital Research in 1991.

This component has been under development at Digital Research / Novell since ( at least ) 1991 under the codename " Vladivar " ( originally a separate device driver KRNL386. SYS instead of a module of EMM386 ).

One email from September 1991, included Allchin telling Gates that, " We need to slaughter Novell before they get stronger.

Univel was a joint venture of Novell and AT & T's Unix System Laboratories ( USL ) that was formed in 1991 to develop and market the Destiny desktop Unix operating system,

The deal involves upfront payment of $ 348 million from Microsoft to Novell for patent cooperation and SLES subscription.

When the final revision of the third version of the GPL license was decided, the deal between Microsoft and Novell was grandfathered in.

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 ).

As part of the deal, 882 patents owned by Novell are planned to be sold to CPTN Holdings LLC, a consortium of companies led by Microsoft

After Novell, IBM, and the United States Trustee objected to the deal, SCO withdrew the proposed sale on November 20, without prejudice.

In October 1994, Borland sold Quattro Pro and Paradox to Novell for $ 140 million in cash, repositioning the company on its core software development tools and the Interbase database engine and shifting toward client-server scenarios in corporate applications.

It has also been possible to run Novell products without IPX for some time, as they have supported both IPX and TCP / IP since NetWare reached version 5 in late 1998.

* Kopete: supports AIM, ICQ, MSN, Yahoo, XMPP, Google Talk, IRC, Gadu-Gadu, Novell GroupWise Messenger and others, for Unix-like ;

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 ).

A solution appeared with the advent of Novell NetWare which provided even-handed support for dozens of competing card / cable types, and a much more sophisticated operating system than most of its competitors.

Other MultiMate products included foreign language versions of the software ( i. e., " MultiTexto " in Spanish ), a hardware interface card for file-transfer with Wang systems and versions of MultiMate for different PC clone MS-DOS computers, and for use on Novell, 3COM and IBM's PC Token Ring networks.

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.

* NovellvMSUtah2-302. pdf — 11 / 18 / 2011-302-MEMORANDUM in Opposition re 297 MOTION for Judgment as a Matter of Law filed by Plaintiff Novell.

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.

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.

The Telephony Server Application Programming Interface ( TSAPI ) is a similar standard developed by Novell for NetWare servers.

— see, for instance, Step-Saver Data Systems, Inc. v. Wyse Technology, Vault Corp. v. Quaid Software Ltd .. Other courts have determined that the shrinkwrap license agreement is valid and enforceable: see ProCD, Inc. v. Zeidenberg, Microsoft v. Harmony Computers, Novell v. Network Trade Center, and Ariz. Cartridge Remanufacturers Ass ' n v. Lexmark Int ' l, Inc. may have some bearing as well.

Linux filesystem drivers do not at present incorporate support for file / directory passwords on FAT12 / FAT16 / FAT32 volumes and multi-user world / group / owner access permissions for read / write / delete / execute rights on FAT12 / FAT16 volumes as implemented in various operating systems of the Digital Research family, including DR-DOS, PalmDOS, Novell DOS, OpenDOS, FlexOS, Concurrent DOS, Multiuser DOS, System Manager and REAL / 32.

Novell intended to continue and extend development of Ximian's original projects, while adding support for its own GroupWise and ZENworks software.

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

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

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.

Novell has been instrumental in making the Utah Valley a focus for technology and software development.