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To: zwolff who wrote (37773)	2/26/2002 5:33:12 PM
From: mar8tin	Respond to of 42771

jack m. former head of union pacific resources...part of the union pacific r.r. he sold to anadarko. jack m is not bringing people from BOSTON.... BOSTON is the headq. of NOVL " CAM> TECH" the byline on nelson leave was BOSTON you all should real. the COMPANY is CAM> tech. not novl,PROVO mglotz

To: zwolff who wrote (37773)	2/27/2002 7:37:50 AM
From: Scott C. Lemon	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 42771

Hello zwolff, > Seems that Mr Messman keeps bringing people from Boston. > Stone is an old pal of Schmidt. A good guy. We should be > back to 5 tomorrow?<g> One of the things that I see in these announcements is that we do not yet know who the leadership in Provo will be. In my recent work in organizational theory, when you analyze effective teams you have to measure the level (quality and quantity) of the communications within the team. This also includes the direct visibility of leadership within the team! What we are seeing, IMHO, is the initial changes being made in management at the top of Novell, and in Provo specifically. We now can see that more leadership is going to be coming from Cambridge. All of this could be good, however I will suggest that if we do not see leadership emerge in Provo that is dynamic, visionary, and visible then we will not see the value of this new leadership reflected in the stock price, now productivity of the company. It's great that something is different, however I will look forward to hearing how that difference will be reflected in Provo ... where the bulk of the engineering is going on ... not in Cambridge. Leadership, IMHO, has to be constantly visible to the employees ... something that has been missing at Novell ... and not something that can be done "remotely" from Cambridge. Under Messman and Stone, there must be a new leadership team that emerges in Provo ... IMHO. ;-) Scott C. Lemon

To: zwolff who wrote (37773)	2/28/2002 9:56:42 AM
From: rudedog	Respond to of 42771

Interesting that they are bringing in Chris Stone. However, saying that Chris "Created CORBA" is very far from the truth. He was involved at an administrative level in the standards work that defined CORBA, but not in any of the heavy lifting, which was done by research people at IBM, DEC, and of course IONA which now owns about 70% of the CORBA market and did much of the actual development and implementation work. An exaggeration like that makes me wonder. Kind of like Gore inventing the internet.