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'Novell's tools will enable people to share info across networks'

Praveena Sharma
Wednesday, October 14, 2009 4:06 IST
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In the 1980s and 1990s, global software company Novell's contribution to the emergence of local area network (LAN) completely altered the commercial computing landscape. The US tech company has now set its sight on the cloud and its enterprise collaboration solution -- Project Cockpit -- that will implant the social networking model in the enterprise space, changing way people interact and share information inside and outside their organisation. Kent Erickson, senior vice-president and general manager -- workgroup of Novell spoke to DNA's Praveena Sharma on how Novell is sitting on the cusp of a business transition. Excerpts:

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