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[[Dennis Fairclough]] is the original founder of [[Novell]], but was let go shortly after [[Ray Noorda]] came to take over the company. |
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'''Dennis Fairclough''' is Deputy Chair/Professor at the Computing & Networking Sciences Department at [[Utah Valley University]]. He specializes in teaching [[Borland C++ Builder]] and [[Java (programming language)|Java]]. |
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Raised in Northern California, Fairclough earned a Ph.D. at [[Brigham Young University]].<ref name="DH_BYU_1985">{{cite news |date=1985-11-05 |title=BYU Connection Solders Together Local Computer Industry |pages=1, 3 |newspaper=Daily Herald |location=Provo, Utah |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/469430373/?terms=fairclough%20novell&match=1 |author-first=J. J. |author-last=Jackson}}</ref> He taught at BYU's department of electric engineering from 1976 to 1984.<ref name="DH_BYU_1985"/> He was an architect of [[Wicat Systems]] and began the computer-related section at Eyring Research Institute.<ref name="DH_BYU_1985"/> He subsequently founded Praxis Computer Systems and Icon Systems.<ref name="DH_BYU_1985"/> |
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Dennis Fairclough worked as a lab assistant in BYU's Electrical Engineering department and was hired by Eyring Research Institute (ERI) to work on government contracts from Hill Air Force Base. His experiance and exposure to the technology being programed for the Software and Intelligent Systems Technology Office (SISTO) and the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPANET) provided an opportunity for his ambitions. At Eyring Research Institute Dennis began developing his ideas for using inexpensive mini-computers networked together to perform big computing tasks. |
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Dennis Fairclough and three of his co-workers at ERI, [[Drew Major]], [[Dale Neibaur]] and [[Kyle Powell]] left their employment with ERI and took with them the experience and technology necessary to start and support the development of [[Novell]]. Dennis Fairclough was the member of that original team that started [[Novell]]. When [[Ray Noorda]] came to [[Novell]] Dennis was dismissed in a route to build upon a new future for [[Novell]]. [[Drew Major]], [[Dale Neibaur]] and [[Kyle Powell]] continued to supply support for Novell through their [[SuperSet]] Software Group. |
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Dennis Fairclough, [[Drew Major]], [[Dale Neibaur]] and [[Kyle Powell]]'s work on the Intelligent Systems Technology Project at ERI transferred to [[Novell]] important insights from the [[ARPANET]] and related developing technologies, insights that would become the foundations of Novell. |
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*[https://web.archive.org/web/20100130083454/http://uvu.edu/profpages/profiles/show/user_id/1438 UVU page] |
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ERI spawned many high-tech spin-offs, including [[WordPerfect]], [[Novell]], and Dynix in computers and some in the military and communication areas that have all benefited the world. (The Life of Frank Carlyle Harmon, written by Cleo Harmon, wife of the Director and Administrative Secretary at Eyring Research Institute, published 1999) |
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And from a former co-worker: |
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Who Really Founded [[Novell]]? |
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No, [[Novell]] wasn't founded by [[Ray Noorda]]. |
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Dennis and a few others secured a bit of funding to renew his quest. [[Novell]] would deliver a computer system with Z-80 clients running CPM and a hard drive server based on the Motorola 68000 processor. |
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After my senior year at [[BYU]], Dennis gave me a full-time offer to work at Eyring. However, he left Eyring only days after I had accepted his offer and turned down offers from HP, Burroughs and Fluke Technologies. |
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Despite my fondness for Dennis, I stayed with Eyring as he took his ideas to a couple of other small startups. Then came [[Novell]]. |
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I remember the first time I saw the demo - in a little office just off the I-15 freeway in [[Orem, Utah]]. Kyle Powell had worked briefly for Eyring, but was now part of the Superset Group, three consultants [[Novell]] hired to write the software to make the little computers communicate. [[Novell]] didn't have the cash to pay Kyle and his cohorts, so they received [[Novell]] stock. Little did they know how valuable that transaction would prove to be! Kyle invited us over to see the amazing things that could be done with networked computers -- and to play a networked computer game they devised. |
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Well, the rest, as they say, is history. [[Novell]] failed as a hardware company. Ray Noorda arrived in 1983, I think, to lead the company to prominence. Dennis is now a professor of Computer Science at Utah Valley State College, and I'm an Identity Management guy in Arizona. We haven't talked in years. But I'll always be indebted to the real founder of [[Novell]] for giving me an early chance in my career and providing some great stories to tell. (http://blogs.sun.com/identity/entry/who_really_founded_novell) |
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Latest revision as of 23:02, 15 January 2023
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Dennis Fairclough is Deputy Chair/Professor at the Computing & Networking Sciences Department at Utah Valley University. He specializes in teaching Borland C++ Builder and Java.
Raised in Northern California, Fairclough earned a Ph.D. at Brigham Young University.[1] He taught at BYU's department of electric engineering from 1976 to 1984.[1] He was an architect of Wicat Systems and began the computer-related section at Eyring Research Institute.[1] He subsequently founded Praxis Computer Systems and Icon Systems.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c d Jackson, J. J. (1985-11-05). "BYU Connection Solders Together Local Computer Industry". Daily Herald. Provo, Utah. pp. 1, 3.
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