Talk:SuperSet Software/Archives/2014

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There's a ton of information about SuperSet in this article, in case anyone cares to make use of it to update this entry: http://www.novell.com/connectionmagazine/2000/05/retro50i.final.pdf

As far as Snipes being the inspiration for NetWare, the current CEO of Novell, Jack Messman, has stated that in several places:

http://www.novell.com/collateral/4613315/4613315.pdf http://www.novellmuseum.net/history_of_novell_g.htm -- (unsigned) 2006-06-17T22:05:42‎ 67.84.246.65

Thanks for the links (even though only two of them are still working). That's useful information for this an other articles. --Matthiaspaul (talk) 21:51, 18 May 2014 (UTC)

Early Novell history as reflected by someone involved

The following excerpt of a blog was originally added to the article in 2007 and removed on 2007-06-28T13:07:46‎ for good reason. While a personal reflection by someone involved and unencyclopedic in nature, it may still help us to sort out some confusing bits of the very early Novell Data Systems and Novell history. Therefore, and because the original blog no longer exists, I am pulling it from the article's change log to here for further evaluation and verification of facts. --Matthiaspaul (talk) 21:48, 18 May 2014 (UTC)

And from a former co-worker:

Who Really Founded Novell?

No, Novell wasn't founded by Ray Noorda.

Dennis and a few others secured a bit of funding to renew his quest. Novell would deliver a computer system with Z-80 clients running CPM and a hard drive server based on the Motorola 68000 processor.

After my senior year at BYU, Dennis gave me a full-time offer to work at Eyring. However, he left Eyring only days after I had accepted his offer and turned down offers from HP, Burroughs and Fluke Technologies.

Despite my fondness for Dennis, I stayed with Eyring as he took his ideas to a couple of other small startups. Then came Novell.

I remember the first time I saw the demo - in a little office just off the I-15 freeway in Orem, Utah. Kyle Powell had worked briefly for Eyring, but was now part of the Superset Group, three consultants Novell hired to write the software to make the little computers communicate. Novell didn't have the cash to pay Kyle and his cohorts, so they received Novell stock. Little did they know how valuable that transaction would prove to be! Kyle invited us over to see the amazing things that could be done with networked computers -- and to play a networked computer game they devised.

Well, the rest, as they say, is history. Novell failed as a hardware company. Ray Noorda arrived in 1983, I think, to lead the company to prominence. Dennis is now a professor of Computer Science at Utah Valley State College, and I'm an Identity Management guy in Arizona. We haven't talked in years. But I'll always be indebted to the real founder of Novell for giving me an early chance in my career and providing some great stories to tell. ([1])

According to the following newer link the blog is run by Mark Dixon:

http://blogs.oracle.com/identity/entry/who_really_founded_novell

--Matthiaspaul (talk) 13:19, 19 May 2014 (UTC)