Not quite sure how the director is meant to fit in. The facts that according to Wikipedia he mainly presided over the selling off of Novell's pieces and the following news items are hardly encouraging in terms of vision for how to promote a new, sweeping technology. From the New York Times a long time ago:
Flummoxed by the Internet, Head of Novell Resigns
By LAWRENCE M. FISHER
Published: August 30, 1996
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Robert J. Frankenberg resigned yesterday as chairman, president and chief executive of Novell Inc., ending a two-and-a-half-year tenure in which the company that was once synonymous with computer networking appeared flummoxed by the explosive growth of the Internet.
Current and former Novell executives said that while Mr. Frankenberg performed ably at the operational level, he had failed to communicate a vision and a strategy for the company during a period of sweeping change in the computer industry.
Unit sales have continued to grow for Novell's core product, the Netware software operating system for corporate computer networks, and the company retains more than 60 percent of that market. But Novell has stood by as its rival, the Microsoft Corporation, has dueled with the upstart Netscape Communications Corporation for software leadership of the global Internet.
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