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was running short on cash, and Novell was looking for a way to regain its stature as a growth company
in the enterprise and network-computing arena.
In the 1980s and early 1990s, Novell was the world??™s number-one computer networking company.
Before the Internet took hold, Novell??™s NetWare servers and IPX/SPX protocols were the most popular
ways to connect PCs on LANs. International training, support, and sales teams brought Novell
products to businesses and organizations around the world.
Despite Novell??™s huge lead in the network computing market, file and printer sharing features in
Microsoft Windows and late entry into the TCP/IP (Internet) arena caused Novell to lose its market
dominance in the 1990s. Although its NetWare products contained excellent features for directory
services and managing network resources, Novell didn??™t have end-to-end computing solutions.
NetWare relied on Windows for client computers and lacked high-end server products.
Novell??™s association with the UNIX operating system in the early 1990s makes an interesting
footnote in the history of Linux. Novell purchased UNIX System V source code from AT&T and
set out to make its resulting UNIXWare product (a UNIX desktop product for x86 processors) a
competitor to Microsoft??™s growing dominance on the desktop.
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