He spent more than seventeen years at Novell Incorporated, with five years as Vice President and Managing Partner over the Americas Enterprise Service Line and Practice delivery teams. With stints in various services leadership positions prior to taking overall profit and loss responsibility for the America's (United States, Canada, and Latin America) Enterprise Service Line.
Perhaps Novell could sell itself — though such statements have been made about the company ever since former CEO Ray Noorda retired in 1994. Rumored buyers over the years have included Sun, IBM and Oracle, just to name a few. But The VAR Guy doesn’t see that happening. Alas, open source continues to represent a small fraction of Novell’s overall revenue. Novell also has a nice footprint in the endpoint security market and the identity management sector. But there again, sales are a fraction of Novell’s overall revenue.
Gold Coast City Council has cut the complexity from network management by dumping its unsupported Novell network authentication software for a new solution.
Novell operation in India was known as "Onward Novell India" till last year when Novell bought full control. So technically he moved to the same company he worked with, since so many years.