Today’s edition of our sister paper Unigram.X hears that chief executive Ray Noorda has cleared out his desk ready for an early departure from the helm of Novell Inc – where he had been expected to remain until June, apparently with no successor chosen: Noorda, who’s made no secret of his desire to do other things with his life, has been spending less and less time at the office recently – more and more time at home, where he is nevertheless said to have been ruminating over rallying an industrywide effort against Microsoft Corp, and about the suit that could still be quietly rumbling away at the Justice Department against Microsoft.
