Ximian, Inc. (previously called
Helix Code and originally named
International Gnome Support) was a company that developed, sold and supported
application software for
Linux and
Unix based on the
GNOME platform. It was founded by
Miguel de Icaza and
Nat Friedman in 1999 and was bought by
Novell in 2003. Novell continued to develop Ximian's original products, while adding support for its own
GroupWise and
ZENworks software.