For Netscape, there's an unannounced startup, Terran, specializing in a framework for Internet browsers, servers and applic ations. For Sun's Java, the re's a recent investment in a scripting language startup, Nombas. Noorda startups exist for factory automation, backup, disaster recovery, fault tolerance, peripherals, and imaging and animation. Many companies we've identified have yet to be announced, and we're told we've missed about three that will surface later this year. We bet one of them will specialize in object broker technology.
People have diverging, and sometime venomous, opinion s.
Frank Dzubeck, president of C ommunications Network Architects, believes Noorda is returning to his venture capital roots-blending companies the way he did early in his career. Dzubeck believes Noorda the entrepreneur simply got bored at Novell. When you get huge, you have to deal with strategies. Novell got too big for him. Everyone called him senile and all that garbage.