ICL, Olivetti And Siemens nixdorf to market And Sell Novell's UnixWare 2

Customers Gain Powerful, Open, Easy-to-Use UNIX Operating System

NICE, France--May 24, 1995--Three of Europe's leading systems vendors--International Computers Limited (ICL), Ing. C. Olivetti& C., S.p.A. (Olivetti), and Siemens Nixdorf Informationssysteme AG (Siemens Nixdorf)--today announced their commitment to market and sell Novell's UnixWare 2, the first business-critical application server designed for Novell networks. The announcement at Novell's annual BrainShare conference detailed plans by these vendors to integrate UnixWare 2 with their product offerings.

Today's announcement signals major acceptance and endorsement of UnixWare 2 by three of the largest European systems vendors. As a result of agreements between Novell and each of these three companies, customers will reap dramatic price/performance improvements in their business computing systems. They will also gain access to a broad base of commercial and line-of-business applications, as well as seamless integration with Novell's NetWare network operating system.

"Today, UNIX systems are the leading platform for enterprise and line-of-business applications," said Novell chairman and CEO Robert J. Frankenberg. "ICL, Olivetti and Siemens Nixdorf are proving that UnixWare 2, as the most advanced and standard UNIX system, can rapidly bring today's applications onto the computer networks that are defining tomorrow's information systems. Novell is committed to the UNIX system, and to the community of users and vendors whose IS solutions are built on the choice of open systems."

UnixWare 2 is the latest generation of UNIX System V technology, a platform for popular commercial applications that has been evolving for more than 20 years. As an application server platform designed for business-critical systems, this new version gives customers a powerful, cost-effective system to meet their needs for high performance, scalability, NetWare integration, ease of use and administration, and broad applications support (more than 3,500 native and 15,000 UnixWare-compatible applications exist today).

ISVs Gain Powerful Platform for Developing Applications

This announcement is particularly significant for independent software vendors (ISVs) who target the European marketplace. With the broad reach of these vendors across Europe, ISVs can now effectively address the European market with a single port of their products to UnixWare 2. By partnering with their systems providers of choice, ISVs can now broadly deliver their applications to the European end user community. Because UnixWare 2 is available in English, French, Italian, German and Spanish language versions, ISVs will be able to easily localize their applications to better meet the needs of European customers.

"We are very pleased with our partnership with Novell," said Ettore Petrini, general manager of Computer Associates in Europe. "Computer Associates is confident in UnixWare 2's potential and our investment in R& D on this platform confirms it. CA-Unicenter and CA-OpenIngres will help mainframe users who want to downsize mission-critical applications to UnixWare 2. We are able to support this emerging operating system standard thanks to CA90s, our modular software architecture designed to provide the same solutions across multiple platforms."

ICL to Deliver UnixWare 2 on all Platforms; Commits to E2/C2 Security Program.

ICL is committed to shipping UnixWare 2 across its entire range of volume servers, including Fujitsu ICL teamservers and superservers for Intel- and SPARC-based products. Under the agreement between ICL and Novell, UnixWare 2 is now shipping on Intel and a ported version for SPARC will be available by the end of 1995. In addition, ICL is working with Novell to certify UnixWare 2 on its platforms as E2/C2 security-compliant for critical European contracts.

ICL offers a number of hardware-independent, UnixWare solutions including networking and connectivity products, TeamWARE Office and OfficePower Groupware solutions, High Availability Manager and the ICL search accelerator. The combination of UnixWare and Fujitsu ICL teamservers and superservers offers outstanding price/performance as application and database servers.

"ICL sees UnixWare becoming the industry standard UNIX operating system with all the associated benefits of applications choice and portability," said Jukka Norokorpi, vice president, client server products, ICL in Bracknell, UK. "UnixWare offers a forward path for ICL customers who are already using UNIX SVR4.2 and SVR4.2MP and we will be shipping UnixWare with the Fujitsu ICL easypack later this month."

Olivetti to Migrate SVR4-Based Systems to UnixWare 2

Olivetti is partnering with Novell to ensure UnixWare 2 is available across its entire Intel platform as a natural evolution of SVR4. In addition, the company is extending its relationship with Novell to become a Novell Authorized Service Center (NASC), thus ensuring comprehensive customer service across all Novell platforms.

"In our continuous and long-standing commitment to provide the market with the reference UNIX environment on its Intel-based platforms, " said Mario Ciofalo, executive vice president systems and services division of Olivetti, Ivrea, Italy, "Olivetti has chosen UnixWare 2 as the backbone of the new generation of UNIX servers, in full continuity with UNIX SVR4 and related added-value environments."

Siemens Nixdorf to Ship UnixWare 2; Ports Middleware Products from Sinix

Siemens Nixdorf is committing to UnixWare 2 as a shrink-wrapped operating system for its Intel PC product line. The company is porting selected middleware products from its own SVR4-based Sinix operating system to UnixWare 2. Sinix is the strategic UNIX operating system for Siemens Nixdorf's RISC server line. Alongside UnixWare 2, Siemens Nixdorf will continue to support other UNIX operating systems in the PC field, namely Sinix for PCS. The company expects its commitment to UnixWare 2 to further boost growing success in its PC server business worldwide.

"Novell's UnixWare 2 represents a logical step in implementing our strategy for extending UNIX into the PC market," said Gernot Henning, general manager, PC Server Division for Siemens Nixdorf in Augsburg, Germany. "With UnixWare 2, our customers will benefit from a multitude of application software and middleware products that run on this operating system. We chose UnixWare 2 because of its performance, functionality, ease of use and its kernel similarities to Sinix."

Pricing, Availability and Upgrades

For more pricing, availability and general information about products mentioned in this release, please call each vendor directly. For ICL products, call Elaine Hunter on +44-1344-472626. For Olivetti products, call Danilo Monaco at +39-125-523152. For Siemens Nixdorf products call Wolfgang Gnettner at +49-89-636-45949. For Computer Associates products, call Carlo Cecchi at +39-2-904641.

For more information about Novell's UnixWare 2, call 801-429-5588, or visit Novell's World Wide Web site at http://www.novell.com.