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Indulge me a little on this… But with the news today that Ray Noorda recently died, I was reminded of the days I worked on the Novell account. He was the guy who almost single handedly created Novell and was called "the father of network computers." He died Monday at 82 after a long battle with Alzheimer's. Noorda, a native of Utah , and a practicing Mormon, started Novell in 1983 with 17 people and grew it into 12,000-employee Company on the strength of its NetWare operating system. "Noorda was the first to clearly articulate that the many interoperating parts of the computer industry meant that one company needed to cooperate with another to ensure their products worked together," recalls InformationWeek. I also worked on 3Com’s account, which, in those days was Novell’s major competitor. As history has demonstrated with both companies and many others which unfortunately got in the way, the Microsoft juggernaut killed them all.

A truly nice guy!