Novell Data Systems Inc, founded in 1979 by George Canova and Jack Davis, later named Novell, Inc 1983, most significantly knowned for its multi-platform network operating system called Novell Netware.

Novell based its network protocol on XNS, and created its own standards from IDP and SPP, which it named IPX (Internet Packet eXchange) and SPX (Sequenced Packet eXchange). File and print services ran on the NCP (Netware Core Protocol) over IPX, as did Routing Information Protocol (RIP) and Service Advertising Protocol (SAP).

Novell did extremely well throughout the 1980s, acting aggressively to increase the market initially by selling the expensive ethernet cards at cost; by 1990, Novell had an almost monopolistic position in NOS for any business requiring a network.

As the Internet became the new Technology, Novell lost incredible market share to Microsoft Windows, and retired Netware for good. Novell has since moved away from Netware for it's new Network Operating System called SUSE LINUX.

At this time Intercore will not follow Novell into the SUSE Linux world. Intercore currently performs migration and upgrades to Microsoft Windows Server and Exchange Server platforms. Intercore is very successful at migrating / upgrading companies from Groupwise to Exchange and from Netware to Windows.


Please contact us regarding migrating your Novell Products to Microsoft products.