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Novell ’ s technology ,” he says . “ It was a dying technology that wasn ’ t being maintained as well as it could be .”
Bolt reflects that the transition that followed Boise leaving Novell behind was one of the “ big breaks ” of his career . “ I received an invitation to the Googleplex to learn about Google Apps for Education . This was 2007 , remember ,” he notes , “ the early days .” Bolt attended the Googleplex in 2007 to learn about the work being done to bring Google apps to educational institutions . Excited by the possibilities , Bolt returned to Boise and pitched the idea to management and IT “ and that was the first domino of removing Novell from our environment .” He laughs before admitting that “ it was kind of the Wild West of IT governance back then . We kind of inflicted change on campus , and the first year afterwards was pretty rocky . We had some people that were very satisfied and some people that were really not . We had rocked their world by taking away their email client and calendaring system they ’ d been using for ten years .” The fallout from the implementation of Google Apps taught Bolt valuable les-
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