Red Carpet Enterprise has been really well received since one guy can install it in about an hour, and it makes it trivial to deal with software management issues like deploying updates and creating standard package sets for your various machines.

At Novell Friedman was the Chief Technology and Strategy Officer for Open Source until January 2010 when he began an extensive world trip with his wife for more than a year. Nathaniel Dourif Friedman (born August 6 1977) known as Nat is a programmer who co-founded Ximian along with Miguel de Icaza in 1999 a company that was later bought by Novell in 2003.

Friedman held the post of CEO of Ximian from 1999 to 2001 when Ximian brought in David Patrick as an external CEO after the company raised fifteen million dollars of venture capital. At Novell Friedman was the Chief Technology and Strategy Officer for Open Source until January 2010 when he began an extensive world trip with his wife for more than a year. Nathaniel Dourif Friedman (born August 6 1977) known as Nat is a programmer who co-founded Ximian along with Miguel de Icaza in 1999 a company that was later bought by Novell in 2003.