I made quite a few visits there, as well as to their Herndon, VA offices. I liked Provo much better. The old Novell campus was at the base of the mountains, and it was so beautiful.
Of course, when Eric Schmidt was CEO, that spelled the end for Novell. Buying Unix from ATT, then pushing it as an alternative to their flagship product at the time, Netware 4, as I recall.
I'm convinced that the marketing execs had been bribed by Microsoft! Novell's directory services was able to do things more than 20 years ago that Microsoft's AD still can't do, and was SO MUCH easier to manage!
Mark
Yea, went to Novell HQ for training many times. Started Back when you needed a serial card with the special chip covered in “baked on Trident” to boot the system.
Glad they got rid of that. NDS was superior to Redmond’s version. Unfortunately, my location got brought into the corporate IT architecture and it was all windows all the time. Even though we had been using Netware over a decade and had a heavy Unix system base as well. We got downsized and it was either transfer to Jersey or leave the company.
I had familial commitments, so I Had to stay. Really liked that job too. Not sure how well I would have handled Jersey though.