Jeffrey Vernon Merkey is an American computer scientist and entrepreneur. After working as a chief scientist for Novell, Merkey left to create his own company, Wolf Mountain Group, to develop a set of clustering technologies. Later renamed Timpanogas Research Group (TRG), Merkey and his company were sued by Novell, who alleged misappropriation of trade secrets. When the legal battle with Novell ended, TRG announced its intention to develop an open source, NetWare-compatible operating system.

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  • Jeffrey Vernon Merkey is an American computer scientist and entrepreneur. After working as a chief scientist for Novell, Merkey left to create his own company, Wolf Mountain Group, to develop a set of clustering technologies. Later renamed Timpanogas Research Group (TRG), Merkey and his company were sued by Novell, who alleged misappropriation of trade secrets. When the legal battle with Novell ended, TRG announced its intention to develop an open source, NetWare-compatible operating system. After a brief spat with Microsoft over the NTFS source code TRG licensed from the company in 2000, Merkey set out to develop an open source, NetWare-compatible operating system, one that would run the Linux kernel atop a NetWare microkernel, called GaDuGi. According to at least one report, Merkey became a controversial figure on the Linux kernel mailing list, for announcing that he would purchase a version of the Linux kernel without the GNU General Public License, among other things. Wolf Mountain Group later announced plans for a new file system for Linux and Windows, called the Wolf Mountain File System. Merkey is recognized as the principal inventor of three issued patents: Method and apparatus for strong affinity multiprocessor scheduling on Intel based SMP computers, Dual axis RAID systems for enhanced bandwidth and reliability, and Redundant storage for multiple processors in a ring network.
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  • Jeffrey Vernon Merkey
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  • Jeffrey Vernon Merkey is an American computer scientist and entrepreneur. After working as a chief scientist for Novell, Merkey left to create his own company, Wolf Mountain Group, to develop a set of clustering technologies. Later renamed Timpanogas Research Group (TRG), Merkey and his company were sued by Novell, who alleged misappropriation of trade secrets. When the legal battle with Novell ended, TRG announced its intention to develop an open source, NetWare-compatible operating system.
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  • Jeffrey Vernon Merkey
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