Early in his career, Schmidt held a series of technical positions with During his time at Sun, he was the target of two notable In April 1997, Schmidt became the CEO and chairman of the board of In March 2001, Schmidt joined Google's board of directors as chair, and became the company's CEO in August 2001. Later that same year, the company introduced its most significant product, the multi-The first Novell product was a proprietary hardware server based on the Novell did extremely well throughout the 1980s. The move was accelerated when The result was NetWare 5.0, released in October 1998, which leveraged and built upon eDirectory and introduced new functions, such as Novell Cluster Services (NCS, a replacement for SFT-III) and Novell Storage Services (NSS), a replacement for the traditional Novell's decline and loss of market share accelerated under Under Ray Noorda's leadership, Novell provided upgrades to resellers and customers in the same packaging as a newly purchased copy of NetWare, but at one third the cost, which created a "gray market" that allowed NetWare resellers to sell upgrades as newly purchased NetWare versions at full price periodically, which Novell intentionally did not track. They include: In March 2010, Novell announced in November 2010 that it had agreed to be acquired by Concurrent with the closing of the acquisition, some of Novell's products and brands were transferred to another of the Attachmate Group business units, Immediately prior to merger being finalized, Novell completed the patent sale to CPTN Holdings for In April 2011, The Attachmate Group announced layoffs for the Novell workforce, including hundreds of employees from their Novell was one of the first computer companies to provide proficiency certification for users of its products. And it's important, for example, that we are all subject in the United States to the In 2013, Schmidt stated that the government surveillance in the United States was the "nature of our society" and that he was not going to "pass judgment on that".In August 2010, Schmidt clarified his company's views on In 2014, Schmidt co-authored the New York Times best-selling book Dating back to early 1990s and dubbed "Schmidt's Law" by George Gilder when Schmidt predicted that the network will become the computer.Schmidt was on the list of ARTnews's 200 top art collectors in 2008.In April 2015, Schmidt delivered the commencement address at "CEO Eric Eric Schmidt stood out because he 'was the only candidate who had been to "Earlier this year, he pulled in almost US$90 million from sales of Google stock and made at least another $50 million selling shares in the past two months as the stock leaped to more than $300 a share."