Novell officials say they will deliver a yet-to-be named product sometime in the next 18 months.
Novell developers were stuck writing applications as NLMs, which involves working in a complex programming environment.
Gilder has since added Novell to his Telecosm portfolio on the strength of Schmidt's "storewidth" vision.
But he had performed poorly in his one stint as a turnaround CEO at Novell.
He's deployed both assets to rejigger Novell from fallen PC networker to ascendant Net software star.
Novell has agreed to sell the rest of the company to the software maker Attachmate.
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All the same, to gain momentum, Novell needs to find more like-minded software firms quickly.
Now, in less than a week, Novell has come up with three answers to its problems.
Put in these terms, Novell's path ahead can begin to look logical, even assured.
Technology company Novell has been providing the 400-strong Renault team with its computer infrastructure since 1998.
's Novell Directory Services (NDS) for policy networking, Cisco is going with Microsoft Corp.
However, Novell has been dismissed as an enterprise-level provider by many business executives in the Fortune 500.
Still, Schmidt prefers beating the drum for Novell's "digitalme"-software that gives Net surfers control over their identities.
Broadvision (BVSN), Jive Software (JIVE) and Novell (a private company) were other named defendants in the suit.
Schmidt is chary with details, having been burned by Microsoft in his days at Sun Microsystems and Novell.
They chose to hire the professorial Schmidt who had last been CEO at an unsuccessful company called Novell.
Indeed, the recent Attachmate-Novell merger represents cost-cutting play as opposed to the equity-friendly growth story pitched by Asurion.
Mono for Android complements MonoTouch, Novell's popular solution for developing applications for the iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch.
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With the addition of Mono for Android to its existing Mono development tools, Novell is enabling Microsoft .
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When she was pregnant with her second child, Ren Siegel, the former Novell executive, simply walked away from the corporate world.
Analysts say Novell historically has not provided customers with enough tools to develop a wide range of NetWare applications.
Some say the technology looks good, but that Novell may be too late.
Our third leading performer was Novell, ahead 40%, now shifting into supporting users of the Linux open-source operating system.
Two big software companies, SAP and Novell, are already building add-ons for Wave.
Novell's somewhat stand-offish attitude to the Internet has done it no favours with the current generation of Internet-centric customers.
Novell once dominated the market for operating systems used by back-office server computers.
At present nearly two-thirds of Novell's sales come from its imperilled Netware franchise.
While Nortel Networks, Lucent Technologies Inc. and others have already licensed Novell Inc.
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