Linux-Watch: Good-bye Mr. Noorda

"Ray Noorda, a giant of the computer industry, died October 9 of Alzheimer's-related illness. It was my pleasure to know Mr. Noorda during his best days, when, as CEO of Novell Inc., he took an obscure network operating system, NetWare, and turned it into the first major PC network OS.

"He wasn't a developer. He was just a tough businessman with the nerve to take on Microsoft, which he saw as a threat to dominate the desktop long before everyone else did..."

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