Editing Ray Noorda (section)

==Novell==
In 1983, Noorda assembled the [[SuperSet]] team whose members included [[Drew Major]], James Bills, Dale Niebaur and Kyle Powell. The team was originally assigned to create a [[CP/M]] disk sharing system, but instead came up with a successful [[file sharing]] system for the newly introduced [[PC compatible|IBM-compatible PC]]. This [[network operating system]] was later called [[Novell NetWare]].

Under Noorda's watch, Novell acquired several companies and products with the goal of countering [[Microsoft]]'s rapid spread into new markets, including [[Digital Research]], [[Unix System Laboratories]], [[WordPerfect]], and [[Borland]]'s [[Quattro Pro]]. Microsoft CEO [[Bill Gates]] claimed that Noorda had a "tremendous vendetta" against Microsoft and that Noorda had supported the [[Federal Trade Commission]]'s antitrust investigations of Microsoft in the early 1990s that led to a [[consent decree]] restricting its [[operating system]] licensing practices.<ref name="Lewyn_1993"/><ref name="Rohm_1998"/>

Noorda ran Novell until 1993. He was succeeded by [[Robert Frankenberg]] in 1994.<ref name="Fisher_1994"/>

Around 1992, Noorda used the term [[co-opetition]] to characterize Novell's business strategy.<ref name="Fisher_1992"/><ref name="Williamson_2006"/>