Sometimes we see headlines like "Novell President Bob Flynn to Give Keynote Address at GWAVACon EMEA," but Novell, the company, is no more. We stopped tracking it around the time Hovsepian found a new home. Afterwards, "Ronald W. Hovsepian [Was] Named to ANSYS Board of Directors" and more recently, "IntraLinks Holdings, Inc. : IntraLinks Appoints Ronald W. Hovsepian New CEO" (he joined along with Semel from Novell [1, 2]).
Cambridge software company Akamai Technologies Inc. (Nasdaq: AKAM) has appointed former Novell exec Jim Ebzery to lead sales, services and marketing operations across the Americas.
Global education leader Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) today announced the appointment of John K. Dragoon to Executive Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer. Dragoon is based in HMH’s corporate headquarters in Boston, reporting directly to Chief Executive Officer Linda K. Zecher.
ownCloud Inc. recently announced that former SUSE executive and ownCloud co-founder Holger Dyroff has joined the company as vice president, sales and marketing. ownCloud Inc. is responsible for the popular open source file sync and share project. Dyroff studied law and business administration at University Erlangen-Nuremberg.
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bfitz22
2012-10-25 17:18:46
In fact, just this week we launched our first cloud offering, which is receiving applause from tech journalists ... see for yourself: http://www.itbusinessedge.com/blogs/it-unmasked/novell-achieves-cloud-control.html
To take three examples of executives leaving a company is a bit extreme to make the conclusion that the company is no longer noteworthy. I guess when long-time Google employees Marissa Mayer and Henrique de Castro took off to Yahoo!, Google pretty much died on the spot?
Novell has a lot to prove, but it continues to create noteworthy products that work and provide a secure environment for employees to be productive.
Dr. Roy Schestowitz
2012-10-25 17:26:03