The first Novell product was a proprietary hardware server based on Motorola 6800 CPU supporting 6 MUX ports per board for a maximum of 4 boards per server using a star topology with twisted pair cabling.

The business area called Novell exteNd contains XML and Web Service tools based on Java EE.

In late September 2006 Novell announced a real time version of SLES called SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time ( SLERT ) based on technology from Concurrent Computer Corporation.

* File Management Suite Integrates three Novell products that work together to discover, analyze, provision, relocate and optimize file storage based on business policies

* EmuTOS-internationalized GPL version of TOS ROMs ( based on open-sourced GEM sources Caldera bought from Novell in 1996 along with DR-DOS )

Novell sought the recovery of $ 19, 979, 561 from SCO based on its licenses to Microsoft, Sun, and others.

Hula was an open source mail and calendar project based on open standards announced on February 15, 2005 by Novell.

A Certified Novell Administrator ( CNA ) is a person that has been professionally certified by Novell to administer NetWare-based based computer networks.

In addition, Novell recommends that candidates take CompTIA's Networking + examination beforehand, based on the belief that it would better prepare people to take the CNA exam.

Novell Open Enterprise Server ( OES ) is the successor product to Novell, Inc .' s NetWare operating system, based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server ( SLES ).

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.

Novell provided desktop manager components and scalable systems technologies from UNIX System V. Sun contributed its ToolTalk application interaction framework and a port of its DeskSet productivity tools, including mail and calendar clients, from its OpenWindows environment.

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.

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

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

In another lawsuit, Novell claims that Microsoft had " deliberately targeted and destroyed " its WordPerfect and QuattroPro programs to protect its Windows operating system monopoly.

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

Novell owes its beginnings to the Eyring Research Institute ( ERI ) in Provo, Utah.

Later that same year, the company introduced its most significant product, the multi-platform network operating system ( NOS ), Novell NetWare.

With this market leadership, Novell began to acquire and build services on top of its NetWare operating platform.

However, Novell was also diversifying, moving away from its smaller users to target large corporations, although the company later attempted to refocus with NetWare for Small Business.

Novell in 1995 assigned portions of its Unix business to the Santa Cruz Operation.

However, by 1999, Novell had lost its dominant market position, and was continually being out-marketed by Microsoft, which gained access to corporate data centers by bypassing technical staff and selling directly to corporate executives.

The CEO of CTP, Jack Messman, engineered the merger using his position as a board member of Novell since its inception and soon became CEO of Novell as well.

With the acquisition of CTP, Novell moved its headquarters to Massachusetts.

From 2003 through 2005 Novell released many products across its portfolio, with the intention of arresting falling market share and to move away from dependencies on other Novell products, but the launches were not as successful as Novell had hoped.

The most popular network operating systems are Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Microsoft Windows Server 2008, UNIX, Linux, Mac OS X, Novell NetWare, and BSD.

* F: — First network drive if using Novell NetWare.

Errors or crashes on the Novell NetWare network operating system are usually called ABENDs.

By 1990, Novell had an almost monopolistic position in NOS for any business requiring a network.

Service Location Protocol ( SLP ), the only protocol for service discovery to have reached the IETF Proposed Standard status, is supported by Hewlett-Packard's network printers, Novell, and Sun Microsystems, but ignored by some other large vendors.

* NetWare Core Protocol, a network protocol used in Novell NetWare

Novell is largely responsible for the use of IPX as a popular computer networking protocol due to their dominance in the network operating system software market ( with Novell Netware ) from the late 1980s through the mid-1990s.

In 1993, Novell began bundling the product with its network operating system.

This network operating system was later called Novell NetWare.

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.

The NOS allowed workgroups of IBM-compatible personal computers to connect to network servers via Ethernet or Token Ring networks, similar to functionality provided by other NOS products such as Novell NetWare and 3Com 3 + Share / 3 + Open.

* Novell eDirectory, formerly Novell Directory Services, directory service software for a network

With the advent of a pervasive global network of testing centers and IT certification programs sponsored by, among others, Novell and Microsoft, the online testing business exploded.

The team was originally assigned to create a CP / M disk sharing system to help network the CP / M hardware that Novell was selling at the time.

This network operating system was later called Novell NetWare.

The other is a set of NetWare Loadable Modules ( NLMs ) which runs on all versions of the Novell NetWare network operating system ( NOS ) from 3. x to 6. x ( current ).

Like an emulator, twoOStwo provides a completely virtualized set of hardware to the guest operating system ; for example, irrespective of make and model of the physical network adapter, the guest machine will see an Novell / Eagle NE2000 or Realtek RTL8029 ( AS ) network adapter.

Novell eDirectory ( formerly known as Novell Directory Services, sometimes referred to as Netware Directory Services ) is an X. 500-compatible directory service software product initially released in 1993 by Novell for centrally managing access to resources on multiple servers and computers within a given network.