In the 1985-87 period Novell went through huge cultural changes associated with it's growth and success. It grew from a small hopeful company with a big dream, into a large successful company that made that dream come true. It grew from Utah-centric to polycentric, from a company in a converted truck dealership building into a company that built its own buildings in a new industrial park, from a company that few people had heard of into a company that was making a brand new multibillion dollar high tech industry. These were stupendous changes, and there were many growing pains associated with the transition.
The story of some of those pains will be told in the next sections of this story: the Netware Centers and End of the Visionaries.