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Senior Vice President, Chief Marketing Officer, Novell

John Dragoon serves as Novell's senior vice president and chief marketing officer. Mr. Dragoon brings over 22 years of high technology operations experience to his role, and is responsible for all aspects of Novell's marketing strategy and activities worldwide, including corporate marketing, field marketing, partner and channel marketing, industry marketing and marketing operations functions. He was most recently vice president of worldwide field marketing for Novell. Mr. Dragoon is a member of Novell's Worldwide Management Committee. Prior to joining Novell, Dragoon was the senior vice president of marketing and product management at Art Technology Group where he was responsible for all aspects of ATG's product plans and strategy, product marketing, and corporate marketing. Before ATG, Dragoon spent more than 16 years at IBM, where he held a number of marketing and sales positions, including director of marketing, IBM Supply Chain Management Solutions. After IBM, Dragoon served as vice president, operations, Internet Capital Group, where he was on the board of nine partner companies providing guidance on strategy, marketing, business development, financing, and product development. Dragoon holds an MBA from Cornell University and a bachelor of science in computer science and economics from Union College.

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October 25, 2006

Oracle’s Linux Annoucement

Platforms / uncategorized

A few hours ago Oracle announced “The same enterprise class support for Linux as for its database, middleware and application products.” Basically, Oracle announced an extension of their previously announced “Unbreakable Linux” campaign adding a “support program that provides enterprises with world-class, award winning, global support for Linux.” (primarily aimed at Red Hat Linux customers)....

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July 19, 2006

Blog Comments

Platforms / uncategorized

As many of you will note who read this blog and more importantly the comments….I let a lot of varying opinions through. I believe the blog should be open - both ways.That said, from time to time the comments get personal, have obvious hidden agendas and rant beyond the point of making a fair and...

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June 12, 2006

SUSE Linux Validation from Dell

marketing / Platforms

The press has picked up on a nice recent step forward for Novell in building out our ecosystem around Linux. Dell has elevated SUSE Linux Enterprise Server to a Tier 1 operating system, the same level as Microsoft and Red Hat. Although Dell has made SUSE Linux Enterprise Server available to its customers as an...

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