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Goodbye, Novell

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When Novell announced that it had agreed to be acquired by Attachmate, someone remarked that they felt a chill passing through the Internet. While the company doesn’t get a great deal of mindshare these days, it was critical to the development of the enterprise that we know today. It was Novell that made networking popular and open to every platform. It was Novell that developed the concept of directory services. And it was Novell that brought us the idea of readily available, reliable network servers long before Microsoft or anyone else was a significant player.

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