Novell Forms Personal Access Division

New Organization to Extend Network Access to Homes, Schools & Small Businesses

OREM, Utah -- June 29, 1995 -- Novell, Inc. today announced the organization of the Personal Access Division, a new part of the company to focus on extending network access to individuals in homes, schools and small businesses. The new division is part of Novell's Information Access and Management Group (IAMG), the Novell product organization that focuses on providing customers with global information access.

To create the new division, Novell is transforming its Consumer Products Division, which had previously focused on stand alone applications for the home. The new division's expanded charter includes providing homes and small businesses with networked application suites and integrated access to commercial on-line services, the Internet and AT&T Netware Connect Services (ANCS).

"By joining IAMG, the Personal Access Division will further Novell's vision of connecting people to people and giving them the information they need at anytime and anyplace," said Steve Markman, executive vice president of IAMG at Novell. "We've united an experienced staff with backgrounds in multimedia education and personal productivity, interface design, home-based application development, and consumer retail marketing. IAMG is now poised to extend network access to people everywhere with innovative products from a division of the company that knows the consumer marketplace."

Novell will continue to market applications under the PerfectHome brand, including such currently shipping titles as PerfectWorks; Hard Evidence: The Marilyn Monroe Files; and the Clip Art Multimedia Collection. PerfectHome products are currently available from more than 3000 North American retailers, warehouse clubs and computer superstores.

The Personal Access Division will focus primarily on delivering networked application suites to the small business and home with links to on-line services, the Internet and AT&T Netware Connect Services. Last month Novell joined America Online in their announcement to integrate software products with their commercial on-line services, giving users one-button access to specific, real-time information. In the near future, Novell will work with third-party consumer information providers to create a direct, secure internet, thus providing these companies with a one-on-one electronic link with their customers.

Novell also has strong ties to the global information network, the Internet, through a partnership with Netscape. In February, the company announced an agreement with Netscape to license its Netscape Navigator software for browsing the Internet's World Wide Web. Novell also has plans for its own next generation browser technology code named "Ferret" which will expand the Netscape agreement.

In cooperation with AT&T, Novell will eliminate network and information boundaries with AT&T Netware Connect Services. ANCS will provide wide area network connectivity that has the reliability, security and manageability required for corporate use, as well as small businesses and consumers in homes. The Personal Access Division will take the ANCS technology and allow for instant connectivity to networks from the home and small business.

"We look forward to extending network access to our customers through the world's leading consumer network, America Online, with one-button access to relevant, real time information," said Jeff Mallett, vice president and general manager, Personal Access Division, Novell. "We also look forward to moving ahead aggressively with AT&T Netware Connect Services to extend network access through our own networked consumer applications as well as other third-party applications. The Personal Access Division joins the IAMG team with the skills, expertise and people to deliver networked consumer applications and services to the burgeoning $3 billion consumer market and 40 million computers in homes and small businesses."