INTRO Novell Inc.

s NetWare product line is the most successfull LAN client / server product line in todays network computing business. NetWares various releases have historically provided their users with a variety of continually improving PC DOS extensions, as well as file sharing, printer sharing, accounting, and many other services. SLIDE 2 Novell owes its beginnings to the Eyring Research Institute (ERI) in Provo, Utah. Dennis Fairclough, Drew Major, Dale Neibaur and Kyle Powell left their employment with ERI and took with them the experience and technology necessary to start and support the development of Novell. Dennis Fairclough was the member of the original team that started Novell Data Systems. Drew Major, Dale Neibaur and Kyle Powell went on to form SuperSet Software. Dennis Fairclough was the original founder of Novell, when Ray Noorda came to Novell, who was dismissed in a route to build upon a new future for Novell. Drew Major, Dale Neibaur and Kyle Powell continued to supply support for Novell through their SuperSet Software Group. The company began in Provo, Utah as Novell Data Systems Inc. in 1979, a hardware manufacturer producing CP/M based systems. It was co-founded by George Canova, Darin Field, and Jack Davis. Victor V. Vurpillat brought the deal to Pete Musser, Chairman of the Board, Safeguard Scientifics, Inc. who provided the seed funding. The company initially did not do well, and both Davis and Canova left the firm. The Safeguard board then ordered Musser to shut Novell down. Musser contacted two Safeguard investors and investment bankers, Barry Rubenstein and Fred Dolin, who guaranteed to raise the necessary funds to continue the business as a software company. They, along with Jack Messman, interviewed and hiredRaymond Noorda. The required funding was accomplished through a rights offering to Safeguard shareholders, managed by the Cleveland brokerage house Prescott, Ball and Turben and guaranteed by Rubenstein and Dolin. The name for the company Novell was suggested by George Canovas wife who mistakenly thought that Novell meant new in French. (In fact, the feminine singular of new in French is nouvelle). Netware evolved from a very simple concept : one or more dedicated servers were connected to the network, and shared disk space in the form of volumes. Clients running MS-DOS would run a special Terminate and Stay Resident (TSR) program that allowed them to map a volume as if it was a local hard disk. Clients had to login in order to be allowed to map volumes, and access could be restricted according to the log-in name. Similarly, clients could connect to shared printers on the dedicated server, and print as if the printer was connected locally. AFTER 5th SLIDE (primary communication protocol)

NetWare uses Novell DOS (formerly DR-DOS) as a boot loader. Novell DOS is similar to MS-DOS and IBM PC-DOS, but no extra license for DOS is required While early Netware systems did entirely trust all modules (any misbehaving module could bring the whole system down), it was very stable. There are reports of Netware servers running for years without any human intervention. 6TH SLIDE (File Service instead of disk service) At the time NetWare was first developed, nearly all LAN storage was based on the disk server model. This meant that if a client computer wanted to read a particular block from a particular file it would have to issue the following requests across the relatively slow LAN: After request issues

NetWare, since it was based on a file service model, interacted with the client at the file API level:
1. Send file open request (if this hadn't already been done) 2. Send a request for the desired data from the file All of the work of searching the directory to figure out where the desired data was physically located on the disk was performed at high speed locally on the server. By the mid-1980s, most NOS products had shifted from the disk service to the file service model.

1983 NetWare/286 needs an additional DOS partition 1986 NetWare 2.0 simple Bindery 1993 NetWare 3.12 and NetWare 4.0: first time with NDS (NetWare Directory Services) instead of Bindery, incl. improvements NetWare 3.2 incl. patches and updates, with graphical Admintool SYSCONW NetWare 4.1, NetWare 4.11 increased directory entries from 2 Mio. up to 16 Mio., SMP for up to 4 CPUs, 100% J2K compatible NetWare 4.2 Netshield for NetWare and VirusScan, Extended SBACKUP, Bordermanager, Fastcache 2005 Open Enterprise Server 1.0, based on SUSE LES 9, with Linux or NetWare kernel 2007 Open Enterprise Server 2.0, based on SUSE LES 10, optional NetWare 6.5 SP7 usable, more than 4 gb RAM usable, 64 bit CPU support, Xen virtualization