"A Novell Inc. layoff will affect 600 employees this winter, or 10 percent of the software company's workforce, in a bid to focus on its Linux operating system and identity security businesses.
"Novell did not specify which locations will be affected. The company has its headquarters in Waltham, Mass., and major facilities in Provo, Utah, where it was founded, and Nuremberg, Germany, where its SuSE Linux division is based..."