Raymond Noorda
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Raymond Noorda (born 1924) was a U.S. computer businessman. He was CEO of Novell between 1982 and 1994. He also served as chairman of Novell until he was replaced in 1994.
In 1983 he assembled the SuperSet team whose members included Drew Major, Dale Niebaur and Kyle Powell. The team was originally assigned to create a CP/M disk sharing system but instead came up with a successful file sharing system for the newly introduced IBM-compatible PC. This Network operating system was later called Novell Netware.
Noorda is credited by many as having coined the term coopetition.
Noorda currently owns the Canopy Group. As a consequence of age and associated health issues, he has not participated in the day-to-day management of Canopy's affairs since 1998. [1] (http://damnsmalllinux.org/arc/groklaw/02_28_2005.htm)
On March 17 2005, Val Noorda Kreidel, his only daughter committed suicide. She was 49 and left behind her husband, four daughters, and a son [2] (http://www.sltrib.com/business/ci_2617160).