Friday, October 13, 2006

Remembering Ray Noorda; we all owe him an enormous debt of gratitude

By Joel Shore

It's not often that I write what amounts to an obituary. But on this day it's appropriate to take a moment to pause and reflect on the contributions that Ray Noorda made to this industry.

Raymond J. Noorda, former CEO of Novell, died on October 10, 2006 at the age of 82, following a lengthy battle with Alzheimer's disease.

Though Novell today is barely a shadow of its former self, we should not quickly lose sight of the accomplishments of Ray Noorda and what he did to advance desktop computing and Ethernet-based networking. We all owe him a debt of gratitude.

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