Editing NetWare (section)

=== From the 1990s ===
{{As of|2010}} some organizations still used Novell NetWare, but it had started to lose popularity from the mid-1990s, when NetWare was the de facto standard for file- and printer-sharing software for the [[Intel x86]] server platform.<ref name="Register_2013"/>

Microsoft successfully took market share from NetWare products from the late-1990s.<ref name="CBS_Linux"/><ref name="LinuxInsider_Microsoft"/> Microsoft's more aggressive marketing was aimed directly at non-technical management through major magazines, while Novell NetWare's was through more technical magazines read by IT personnel.{{Citation needed|date=November 2009}}

Novell did not adapt their pricing structure to current market conditions, and NetWare sales suffered.<ref name="Galli_2003"/>