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An old friend told me years ago Eric Schmidt was what ruined Novell. Do other people believe that?
by turbobooster 4y ago
An old friend told me years ago Eric Schmidt was what ruined Novell. Do other people believe that?
- manishsharan 4y agoNo. It was Ray Noorda's obsession with beating Microsoft and diversifying their focus that was the root cause , in my opinion. However, it was also Ray that led Novell to its glorious heights.
- ghaff 4y agoEric Schmidt ultimately failed to revitalize them in spite of best efforts. But Noorda and Bob Frankenberg have to share at least some of the blame as well--as does a whole lot of internal politics. Novell basically managed to go essentially nowhere through the 1990s while Windows NT was maturing.
- jacquesm 4y agoI don't know. I really don't like Schmidt, I think he's one of the biggest hypocrites alive but Novell was arguably already on the way out when he took over. Noorda made it go up, and he saw the beginnings of it going back down and that's when Schmidt was hired, probably in an attempt to turn the tide and avoid the inevitable victory of Microsoft over Novell. But Microsoft really had an unfair advantage and personally I do not think Novell ever had a realistic chance of staying in the race in the longer term.
- AlbertCory 4y agoYour old friend is full of it. He tried to bring it back but it was too late. Nothing he did could have mattered.