Reading the Novell corporate history is interesting. Starting in microcomputers, hard pivoting into corporate networking using resellers as their sales force, t

Reading the Novell corporate history is interesting. Starting in microcomputers, hard pivoting into corporate networking using resellers as their sales force, then trying to move up the ladder because expensive custom network driver/custom network server isn't sustainable with Unix's built-in networking and server banging on the corporate doors. Their move into office suite software seemed late (PerfectOffice 3 released for Win3.x in December 1994) given the Win95 juggernaut was coming in less than a year. One guy who came out well from the Novell CEO office: Eric Schmidt. Afterwards, he landed at a small startup called Google. Now he's off spending his billions... For more info about Active Directory (which came from MS Exchange's Directory component), you can read the dev lead's comment: https://hardcoresoftware.learningbyshipping.com/p/021-expanding-breadth-versus-coherency/comment/1801958 https://hardcoresoftware.learningbyshipping.com/p/021-expand... There's more about MS Exchange from a MS C-level suite viewpoint: https://hardcoresoftware.learningbyshipping.com/p/021-expanding-breadth-versus-coherency/ https://hardcoresoftware.learningbyshipping.com/p/021-expand...