Good bye Ray Noorda

Ray Noorda, former CEO and Chairman of networking software giant Novell, passed away Monday at the age of 82 from Alzheimer's disease. While Novell has had its share of ups and downs in recent years, Noorda deserves credit for launching PC networking and turning Novell into a billion dollar powerhouse software company in the 1990s. For those old enough to remember, getting PCs connected together to handle email and file & printer sharing was a godsend; Netware made it possible and became the de facto standard. Netware enabled millions of developers to create networked applications. Netware's resellers and certified engineers were tremendously loyal to Novell and enabled the company to transform itself into an open source company in recent years.