Novell Education Declares March "Certification Month"

Press Release

Celebrates Certification and Continuing Evolution

PROVO, UTAH -- March 1, 1995 -- Novell Education has declared March 1995 as "Certification Month," when Novell will both celebrate certification in the information technology (IT) industry and begin announcing a series of evolutions to one of Novell's hallmark certification programs, the Certified Novell Engineer (CNE), as well as news surrounding the Certified Novell Administrator (CNA) and Certified Novell Instructor (CNI).

Together with Novell's certification partners--its CNEs, CNAs, and CNIs--and key Novell Education service providers and channel partners, Novell will globally celebrate the success of its certification programs: passing its 50,000th CNE milestone, cementing CNE as the global standard in service and support; the growth of the CNA program, introduced only two years ago, to 40,000-plus CNAs; and the global nature of Novell Education's certification programs.

Throughout the month, Novell Education will be making announcements regarding program enhancements and directions through out the month of March. Key service providers, such as Busch Creative Services (BCS), Drake Prometric, Sylvan Learning Centers, and Virtual University Enterprises (VUE), will be involved in various aspects of Certification Month and its on-going events.

A brief overview of Certification Month events include CeBIT Fair (March 8-15), Brainshare Salt Lake City (March 20-24), and NetWorld + Interop (March 27-31).

Celebrating Growth

The 50,000th CNE is from the Netherlands. The 49,998th, 49,999th, 50,0001st, and 50,002nd are all from outside the United States. And Novell's training infrastructure, which started with 30 sites in the United States, has spread to more than 1,300 Novell Authorized Education Centers ( NAECs) throughout the world.

This world penetration of CNEs speaks to the global nature of Novell certification and points to Novell President and CEO Bob Frankenberg's vision of global pervasive computing and the surge toward one billion Novell users by the year 2000. Novell Education's student throughput for 1994 was greater than half a million. Novell Education is slated to exceed that half-million mark by another 300,000 more student units this year, bringing student throughput up to three quarters of a million by the end of 1995 as it continues to lead the networking industry in training and certification.