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Novell Announces Business Group Structure
Maintaining Customer Focus While Expanding Product and Market
Opportunities
November 5, 1991, Provo, Utah -- Novell, Inc. (NASDAQ:NOVL) announced it
has formed a business group structure to enhance its responsiveness to
customer needs while the company expands the range of its software product
offerings, including NetWare services, UNIX and internetworking products,
and DR DOS, DR Multiuser DOS and FlexOS operating system products.
Novell is now organized around three primary business groups with
executives reporting to Raymond J. Noorda, president and chief executive
officer: NetWare Systems Group, Interoperability Systems Group and
Digital Research Systems Group. In addition, centralized corporate
functions shared by the three business groups report to Noorda, including
executives responsible for the Corporate Services Group and Novell's sales
organization.
"Novell has taken these steps to maintain our responsiveness to customer
needs for an increasing array of software products that tightly integrate
complex network computing environments," said Raymond J. Noorda, president
and chief executive officer of Novell. "Within this structure Novell's
product units will be able to keep in closer contact with their customers,
be more flexible in their response and better able to deliver the desired
solutions."
James C. Bills, formerly executive vice president sales, has become
executive vice president and general manager NetWare Systems Group. Bills
is responsible for product development and marketing of NetWare network
services, IBM connectivity, Apple Macintosh and database products. NSG
also maintains the Novell Labs Independent Manufacturers Support Program
and Software Testing Program that provide testing and certification of
NetWare compatibility for hardware and software products from more than
400 other computer product vendors.
Kanwal S. Rekhi, formerly executive vice president product development, is
now executive vice president and general manager Interoperability Systems
Group. ISG includes product development and marketing of UNIX products,
TCP/IP and ISO standards products, messaging products, wide-area
networking systems technology and network management product development,
including intelligent hub and multi-protocol routing software.
Richard H. Williams, formerly president and chief executive officer of
Digital Research, now a Novell subsidiary, has become executive vice
president sales, in addition to being named general manager Digital
Research Systems Group. Novell's worldwide sales organization, which
supports all three business groups, reports to Williams.
Mary M. Burnside, formerly senior vice president operations, has been
named executive vice president Corporate Services Group, responsible for
service and support, training and education, manufacturing and
distribution, and product documentation. Burnside is responsible for
Novell's Technical Support Alliance that provides customers with
cross-vendor product support from Novell and 24 other leading computer
industry vendors.
Other executives responsible for centralized functions, and continuing to
report to Noorda are Darrell Miller, executive vice president, David R.
Bradford, senior vice president, general counsel, Tim J. Harris, senior
vice president human resources, James R. Tolonen, senior vice president
and chief financial officer, and Terri Holbrooke, vice president corporate
communications.
Novell, Inc. employs more than 3,100 people worldwide. An operating
system software company, it is the leading provider of network service
operating system software that integrates desktop computers, servers, and
minicomputer and mainframe hosts for information sharing. Novell's
NetWare network computing products manage and control the sharing of
services, data and applications among computer workgroups, departmental
networks and across business-wide information systems.