UnixWare 2 To Run Steve Chen's High Performance Parallel Servers

Customers Gain Top Performing High-Volume OS Solution for Enterprise Computing

SAN JOSE, CALIF.--June 19, 1995--Novell Inc. announced today that UnixWare®2, the first application server designed to bring business-critical computing to Novell networks, will ship on a new generation of high performance symmetric multiprocessing (SMP) servers from Chen Systems, Inc. this September. The powerful new Chen Systems servers will incorporate multi-processor parallel architecture and system management tools, which are essential for large enterprises to run mission-critical application systems in a client-server environment. In addition, Novell and Chen Systems will partner on product development and marketing activities for this enterprise-strength solution.

Dr. Steve S. Chen, president and chief architect of Chen Systems, is well-known for his design of Cray supercomputers. Chen said, "We chose UnixWare 2 because it provides the robust, scalable and open operating system our customers want in a distributed/parallel computing environment and because it supports our hardware scalability. For those reasons, we also plan to work closely with Novell to promote UnixWare 2 in the enterprise computing space. This partnership will ultimately provide cohesive solutions for enterprise-wide distributed and parallel processing within single system image clustered computing environments."

As a result of this partnership between Novell and Chen Systems, customers will gain an open enterprise computing platform with an industry-leading operating system that delivers world-record absolute price/performance and scalability -- as indicated by recent AIM and TPC-C benchmarking results. Today's announcement provides further evidence of the acceptance and endorsement of UnixWare 2 by leading-edge client-server platform vendors.

"Our partnership with Chen Systems will evolve as Novell's future operating system offerings continue to meet their product needs, from small entry servers to very large enterprise server systems. We are very pleased that UnixWare 2 is contributing a key element of Chen's core technology," said Mike DeFazio, senior vice president of development for Novell's Operating System Division.

In addition to partnering on marketing activities with Novell, Chen Systems also will provide input to Novell's future OS offerings, specifically in the areas of high performance modeling, measurement and tuning, advanced software, and overall enterprise capability.

The new Chen Systems high performance parallel servers, which are based on the Intel Pentium® microprocessor, can support up to eight processors.

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. 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).