...medicine cabinet to grab a bucketful of Prozac: Linux began to boom. I was at Novell when Novell vice-chairman ChrisStone and others began to feel their way toward Linux, first with the Ximian acquisition and then with the SUSE acquisition...
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13505_3-10098239-16.html
...amount of technology change and merger/acquisition activity. The changes noted by IDC include the following: ! ChrisStone, vice chairman, office of the CEO, departed in November 2004. Stone was seen as a technically astute thought leader...
http://www.novell.com/company/idc_whitepaper.pdf