Triple whammy?

IF THINGS had been slightly different, the world's most powerful software company might have hailed from Orem, Utah, rather than Redmond, Washington. Orem is the home of Novell, a firm whose Netware software has dominated the business of knitting together local area networks (or LANs) of computers ever since the mid-1980s. With networking all the rage, Novell had a good chance of capturing the software market from Microsoft.