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Novell Inc.

Type	Public (NASDAQ: NOVL)
Industry	Software
Founded	Provo, Utah (1983)
Headquarters	Waltham, MA , USA
Key people	Ron Hovsepian, CEO and President John Dragoon, Senior Vice President, CMO Dana Russell, Senior Vice President, CFO
Products	Novell eDirectory Novell Open Enterprise Server SUSE Linux Enterprise Server Novell NetWare SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop Novell GroupWise Novell ZENworks Novell Identity Manager Novell Access Manager Novell exteNd Novell BorderManager PlateSpin Forge, PowerConvert and PowerRecon
Revenue	US$932.5 million (2007)
Operating income	US$55.8 million (2007) (-6.0% operating margin)
Net income	US$44.5 million (2007) (-4.7% profit margin)
Number of employees	4,100 (2008)

Novell Inc. (NASDAQ: NOVL) is a global software corporation based in the United States specializing in enterprise operating systems such as SUSE Linux Enterprise and Novell NetWare; identity, security and systems management solutions; and collaboration solutions. Together with WordPerfect, Novell was instrumental in making the Utah Valley a focus for high-technology software development. Today this area has many small companies whose employees have previously worked at Novell.

Related pages

• Red Hat Linux
• openSUSE

Images for kids

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  Novell's chief scientist was Drew Major, here seen later in his career

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  Novell made some networking hardware products even after NetWare became a success; here, a Novell NE2000 16-bit ISA 10Base-2 Ethernet card from 1990

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  Floppy disks for NetWare 2.2

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  Novell's Building F in Provo in 1994, part of a large complex of Novell buildings once there, with the Wasatch Range in the background

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  The annual Novell BrainShare conference, seen here with its entrance letters in 1995, helped spread the word about how developers and partners could make use of NetWare

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  Novell's Summit, New Jersey, office, 1994 (formerly Unix System Laboratories)

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  Novell had a development office in Bracknell, Berkshire, UK for many years (here seen in 2006)

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  The WordPerfect building in Orem, Utah, with Novell signage, in 1994

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  Novell's PerfectOffice suite, reflecting the purchases of WordPerfect and Quattro Pro

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  Eric Schmidt, CEO of Novell from 1997 to 2001

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  From 1998 to 2001, Novell owned this private jet, here seen taking off from San Jose bound for Provo

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  In the early 2000s Novell moved its headquarters to this building in Waltham, Massachusetts, following the acquisition of Cambridge Technology Partners

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  SuSE Linux headquarters and Novell office in Nuremberg in 2007

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  Novell with SuSE at the Invex expo in Brno, Czech Republic in 2006

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  Novell's booth at a 2007 event in Beijing, showing slogan

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  Despite controversy with some in the community, Novell persisted: its booth at Solutions Linux 2009 in Paris.

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  The main building in Provo in 2013 during the Attachmate Group era; the name Novell was kept on it. A 'For Sale' sign for some of the property can be seen in front of the building.

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  Internal company T-shirt celebrating two acquisitions ... that did not work out

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  While Novell was no longer an independent company after 2011, it (along with WordPerfect) was instrumental in making the Utah Valley a focus for software development, and its legacy resides in the area having many small companies whose employees previously worked at Novell.

See also

In Spanish: Novell para niños