by Roger Bourke White Jr., copyright 2010
Entertainment, Education, and Employees
The Novell Story
A Brief History of Events Leading to PC-Based LANs
Why Call This a Revolution?
The Burning Questions
The Enigma
PART ONE The Foundation Years, 1980–84
CHAPTER ONE Building Ray’s Stage
The Acorn Is Planted
The Sapling Grows
The Year in Review
CHAPTER TWO 1982: The Time of Six Presidents
Summary
The First Crisis: Jack Davis Departs
The March Massacre of ’82
The People of 1982
After the Massacre
Novell Data Systems in Retrospect
CHAPTER THREE 1983: Vision Unchained
The New Man
The Entrepreneur
The Diamond in the Rough
From the Outside
CHAPTER FOUR Crossing the High Sierras
Tunneling through Granite
Evolving beyond S-Net
Parting the Waters: NetBIOS and DOS 3.1
Building a Company Mission
Comdex 84
PART TWO Novell Emerges, 1984–88
CHAPTER FIVE The PC-Based LAN Revolution Begins
Early Technical Goals for NetWare
Background: What’s Happening in 1986
Meeting the Challenges
Other Developments
Sales and Trade Shows
The State of Play
The Cycle of Life at Novell
Coming of Age Financially
The Culture of Growth
Education and Marketing
Making Novell “Bricks and Mortar”
… and West Is West
Chairman Ray
CHAPTER SEVEN Corporate Decisions
International
NetWare Centers and NetWare Everywhere
PART THREE Novell Matures, 1988–94
CHAPTER EIGHT The End of the Visionaries, 1988–89