Summary: Novell's team of experts is gradually disintegrating

ONCE in a while we learned about former Novell employees who left the company very quietly. Dr. Jeff Jaffe, Novell's CTO, quit the company several months ago and based on this new article from Bill Claybrook ("Deciphering Red Hat's cloud computing strategy"), he too "resigned his competitive analyst/Linux product marketing position at Novell in June 2009 after spending over four and a half years at the company."

Previously we wrote about Tech Data's relationship with Novell [1, 2, 3, 4] and days ago in the news we found a personal link too:

The unit is being led by Sathya Murthy, who previously worked for Tech Data, Novell and more recently Magirus, where he managed the company's VMware business.

This is not anything major, but still, it is worth keeping track of. ⬆