Novell Facts
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Corporate Snapshot
Corporate headquarters are in Waltham, Mass., with key facilities located in Provo, Utah and Nuremberg, Germany.
Novell employs 3,600 people around the globe.
Global Presence
Almost 50 percent of Novell's employees are located outside of the U.S., in more than 100 offices around the world including regional and development offices located in Bangalore, India; Beijing; Bracknell, United Kingdom; Paris; Prague, Czech Republic; Sao Paulo, Brazil; Sydney, Australia; and Tokyo.
Trades on NASDAQ Stock Market
Novell trades under the symbol NOVL.
Chief Executive Officer
Novell's CEO is Ronald W. Hovsepian.
Chairman of the Board
Novell's Non-Executive Chairman is Richard L. Crandall.
Year Founded
Novell was founded in 1983.
Fiscal Year Sales
For fiscal year 2009, Novell reported revenue of $862 million.
Novell Customers
Novell serves customers in varied market segments, who highly value interactive business solutions in the data center, security and identity, resource management, workgroup, and desktop spaces.
Representative customers include BT, BMW, Casio, City of New York, Credit Suisse, Deutsche Bank AG, Gulfstream Aerospace Corp., HSBC, Lufthansa, Office Depot, Postbank, PSA Peugeot Citroën, Qualcomm, Sesame Workshop, Siemens, State of California, UK National Health Service, US Navy, Wal-Mart, Western & Southern Financial Group and Wyndham Worldwide.
Patents
Novell has 611 U.S. and foreign patents
Open Source & Linux Leader
- Novell is committed to driving Linux deployments in the enterprise and helping customers make the move to Linux.
- Novell is committed to the open source movement and contributes to dozens of open source projects.
- Novell has promoted open standards for years by being a leader in the open standards efforts and an active member of relevant standard bodies.
- Novell is committed to growing and promoting the adoption of Linux everywhere, by sponsoring the openSUSE.org project, which includes the openSUSE distribution and openSUSE Build Service. The openSUSE Build Service makes it possible to build packages for openSUSE®, SUSE® Linux Enterprise, and all other major Linux distributions.
- Novell hosts the world famous SUSE Labs, which employs engineers that play prominent roles in many open source projects crucial to the success of Linux.
- Novell is a major contributor to the Linux kernel.
- Novell is the number one contributor and maintainer of Mono.
- Novell is the number one contributor and maintainer of Evolution.
- Novell is the number two contributor to OpenOffice.org.
- Novell is the number one Linux contributor to Xen.
- Novell sponsors the Bandit project, an open source project chartered with developing identity services that unify disparate identity systems and provide a consistent approach to securing and managing identity.
- Novell is a contributor to the open source framework Higgins that enables users and other systems to integrate identity, profile, and relationship information across multiple heterogeneous systems.
- Novell sits on the Linux Foundation board of directors.
- Novell is proud to have employees on the GNOME board.
- Novell is an Apache Software Foundation member.
Novell Timeline
1983
Novell introduced NetWare®, the first LAN software based on file-server technology.
1989
Novell acquired Excelan.
September 1989
Novell shipped the first commercially available 32-bit operating system for an Intel 80386 CPU (NetWare 386).
February 1994
Novell shipped the first commercially available enterprise-wide directory service and distributed secure authentication system for workgroup productivity workloads.
June 1994
Novell purchased WordPerfect.
March 1999
At BrainShare 1999, Novell demonstrated a working directory with 1 billion objects on a volume (NDS eDirectory/NetWare 5.0).
September 1999
Novell shipped the first high-availability clustering system that was scalable to 32 nodes on Intel architecture hardware.
November 1999
Novell released eDirectory™ (then called NDS eDirectory) on NetWare, Windows and Solaris; releases for Linux, AIX and HP-UX were added in subsequent years.
July 2001
Novell acquired Cambridge Technology Partners, adding a powerful new service and consulting capability to complement Novell's industry-leading Net Services software.
July 2002
Novell acquired Silverstream, a leader in Web services-oriented application development.
August 2003
Novell acquired Ximian, the leading provider of desktop and server solutions enabling enterprise Linux adoption.
September 2003
Novell was the first to support 32 nodes of high-availability clustering on top of an iSCSI-only-based SAN.
January 2004
Novell acquired SUSE Linux, one of the world's leading enterprise Linux companies.
February 2005
Novell contributed eDirectory developer interfaces to open source and Novell launches open source collaboration server initiative.
March 2005
Novell shipped Open Enterprise Server, a secure and reliable suite of services that combines NetWare and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Novell acquires Tally Systems Corporation the recognized leader and innovator in asset management.
May 2005
Novell acquires Immunix, Inc., a leading provider of host-based application security solutions for Linux and the creator of the Linux application security system, AppArmor®.
August 2005
Novell announced openSUSE.org, providing free and open access to SUSE Linux and inviting open source developers to participate in the review, testing and development of the SUSE Linux distribution.
April 2006
Novell announces the acquisition of e-Security, Inc. a leading provider in the Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) space.
July 2006
Novell announces the worldwide availability of SUSE Linux Enterprise 10, the next-generation platform for the open enterprise. SUSE Linux Enterprise 10 from Novell includes SUSE Linux Enterprise Server and SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop.
November 2006
Novell announces landmark collaboration agreement with Microsoft on Linux and Windows interoperability.
August 2007
Novell acquires Senforce Technologies, Inc., a leader in endpoint security management.
February 2008
Novell acquires SiteScape, a leader in open source team collaboration.
March 2008
Novell acquires PlateSpin® Ltd., a leader in workload lifecycle management solutions for the enterprise data center.
October 2008
Novell acquires business service management leader, Managed Objects.
March 2009
Novell ships SUSE Linux Enterprise 11, the operating system designed for the
next-generation data center.
May 2009
Novell and Intel announce efforts to collaborate on the development and
promotion of Moblin, an optimized open source Linux software platform for
enabling rich Internet experiences on Intel Atom processor-based netbooks and
other mobile systems.
July 2009
Novell unveils the SUSE Appliance Program, a comprehensive program and group of
technologies that enable Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) to rapidly build,
update, configure and go to market with fully supported software and virtual
appliances.
November 2009
Novell announces the first real-time collaboration platform for the enterprise,
Novell Pulse and its work with Google to ensure seamless federation between
Google Wave and Novell Pulse.
December 2009
Novell announces reorganization to align the business with its strategic
objective to become the leader in the emerging Intelligent Workload Management
(IWM) market.