page_title: Novell
section_title: Acquisitions
hierarchical_section_title: Novell / Acquisitions
caption_attribution_description: English: User's Guides for Novell WordPerfect 6.1 for Windows and Quattro Pro 6.0 for Windows, as included in the product box for Novell PerfectOffice 3.0 in 1995.
context_page_description: Novell, Inc. was an American software and services company headquartered in Provo, Utah. Its most significant product was the multi-platform network operating system known as Novell NetWare, which became the dominant form of personal computer networking during the second half of the 1980s and first half of the 1990s. At its high point, NetWare had a 63 percent share of the market for network operating systems, and by the early 1990s there were over half a million NetWare-based networks installed worldwide. Novell technology contributed to the emergence of local area networks, which displaced the dominant mainframe computing model and changed computing worldwide. Novell became instrumental in making Utah Valley a focus for technology and software development.
  Under the leadership of Ray Noorda, during the early- to mid-1990s Novell attempted to compete directly with Microsoft by acquiring Digital Research, Unix System Laboratories, WordPerfect, and the Quattro Pro division of Borland. These moves did not work out, and NetWare began losing market share once Microsoft bundled network services with the Windows NT operating system and its successors.
context_section_description: Santa Clara Systems, Inc. (1986) for storage subsystems, network adapters, PCs
  Cache Data Product (1986)
  CXI (1987) for micro-to-mainframe software
  SoftCraft (1987) for Btrieve database and programming tools
  Indixy Software (1988/1990) for e-mail and message handling
  Excelan (1989) for TCP/IP, Unix, Mac, DEC VMS connectivity products
  Digital Research for US$80 million (1991) for PC operating system software (DR DOS etc.)
  International Business Software Ltd. (1992)
  Serius (1993)
  Unix System Laboratories (1993)
  WordPerfect Corporation (1994)
  Quattro Pro (Borland) (1994)
  Netoria (1999)
  Ukiah Software (1999)
  JustOn (1999)
  PGSoft (2000)
  Novetrix (2001)
  Cambridge Technology Partners (2001)
  Callisto Software, Inc. (2001)
  SilverStream Software (2002)
  Ximian (2003)
  SUSE (2003)
  Salmon (2004)
  Tally System (2005)
  Immunix (2005)
  e-Security, Inc (2006)
  RedMojo (2007)
  Senforce (2007)
  PlateSpin (2008)
  SiteScape (2008)
  Fortefi (2008) for Command Control and Compliance Auditor
  Managed Objects, Inc. (2008)
caption: Two acquisitions that did not work out
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