Key facts
- Company.name
- Novell, Inc.
- Company.logo
- 225px
- Company.image
- Novell Provo headquarters.jpg
- Company.image_caption
- Headquarters tower (Building H) in Provo, Utah in 2008
- Company.type
- Public
- Company.fate
- Acquired by The Attachmate Group, then by Micro Focus International and OpenText
- Company.industry
- Computer software
- Company.num_employees
- 10,150 (peak, 1994)
- Company.revenue
- $2.0 billion (peak, 1994 and 1995)
- Company.foundation
- Orem, Utah, United States
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- public company
- Headquarters
- Provo
- Owned by
- Micro Focus International
- Parent organization
- Micro Focus International
- Industry
- software industry
- Employees
- 4000
- Revenue
- 956000000
- Stock exchange
- Nasdaq
- Legal form
- public company
- Official website
- www.novell.com
- Image
- Novell Provo headquarters.jpg
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- Commons category
- Novell
- topic's main category
- Category:Novell
- Stack Exchange tag
- stackoverflow.com/tags/novell
- inception
- 1979-01-01
- location of formation
- Provo
- dissolved, abolished or demolished date
- 2014-01-01
- product or material produced
- software
- ACM Classification Code (2012)
- 10011587
- different from
- Novel
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Encyclopedic overview
35 sectionsContents
- History
- {{anchor|NDSI}}Origins as a hardware company
- Rise to networking dominance
- A new company
- NetWare
- NetWare 386
- Corporate ethos and "coopetition"
- Sales and channel practices
- Taking on Microsoft
- Motivations
- {{anchor|DRI|EDC|DSG}}Desktop OS and embedded systems: DOS, NEST, and Corsair
- {{anchor|USG|SuperNOS}}Server OS: UnixWare and SuperNOS
- Tools: AppWare
- Applications: WordPerfect, Quattro Pro, and GroupWise
- Results
- Loss of networking dominance
- NDS and other new products
- Decline of marketshare
- {{anchor|CTP}}Cambridge Technology Partners
- Linux
- SuSE and Open Enterprise Server
- Stagnation
- "Your Linux is Ready"
- Legal actions and reactions
- Intelligent workload management
- Acquisition by The Attachmate Group
- Acquisition by Micro Focus and OpenText
- Companies acquired
- Certification
- Legacy
- Products
- See also
- References
- Further reading
- External links
### Support
* [OpenText Support](https://support.opentext.com/)
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