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Novell Previews Distributed Printing Technology For Development Partners Delivers pre-release NetWare Distributed Print Services APIs during First Developer Conference for next-generation NetWare printing service PROVO, Utah -- December 12, 1995 -- Novell, Inc. continued to build third-party partner support by hosting top network developers for a conference on its next-generation printing services, NetWare® Distributed Print Services® (NDPS®). During the two-day NDPS Software Development Conference starting today in Provo, Novell will deliver pre-release NDPS application programming interfaces (APIs) for independent software vendors (ISVs) to add powerful new printing capabilities to their most popular applications. Delivery of the NDPS APIs marks another key milestone for the NetWare product roadmap, announced this fall.NDPS technology is designed to scale from the smallest network to the largest global enterprise, increasing user and administrator productivity in organizations of all sizes. In addition, it uses a distributed database within NetWare Directory Services® (NDS®) to deliver transparent access to printing resources anywhere on a network, as opposed to a single network server. As smaller organizations' private networks interconnect with enterprise environments and public networks to create a single Smart Global Network, NDPS will give users seamless access to varied printing resources from any location throughout that worldwide network. Announced at BrainShare '95 in conjunction with leading printer industry development partners Hewlett-Packard Company and Xerox Corporation, NDPS will provide the printing services foundation for future versions of Novell's industry-leading NetWare 4 network operating system (NOS). It is the first essential NetWare service designed to give users a comprehensive set of simple printing options and information to provide greater control over network print jobs. "Through our partnership with Hewlett-Packard and Xerox, we're elevating network printing to a new level and paving the way for new third-party product opportunities," said Richard King, executive vice president and general manager of Novell's Systems Group. "We're underscoring our commitment to fully support ISVs by providing Novell product and technology information early in their development cycles. The overwhelming response to last week's Novell Partner Summit and this week's NDPS Software Development Conference shows strong industry support for our NetWare platform and services initiatives." Software engineers from over 60 organizations worldwide will participate in the NDPS Development Conference overviews, seminars and tutorials to research the architecture and identify product applications. Throughout the conference, Novell, HP and Xerox engineers will demonstrate NDPS technology and applications, lead development discussion sessions and address attendees' questions about using the cross-platform APIs to build NDPS-aware applications. Each participant will also receive a complimentary copy of the pre-release NDPS APIs. Conference attendees can also join Novell's DeveloperNet® program to receive ongoing technical support for the API software. After participating in the NDPS conference sessions, software developers will be able to leverage the consistent NDPS APIs and easily create advanced print-aware applications. These software packages will let users directly choose printing options from within an application, select the best printer for a specific document and easily print multi-part complex documents (for example, a stapled two-page letter on letterhead and second-sheet paper, with an envelope). ISVs can also develop applications to help network administrators simplify printer management and support. Through future releases of NDPS technology, developers will be able to give their users integrated access to fax, scanning and multifunction devices in addition to printing resources. In Spring 1996, Novell plans to release a special NetWare Distributed Print Services software developer's kit (SDK) to ISVs interested in leveraging NDPS services. The NDPS SDK will be part of the Net2000 SDK, which will provide ISVs with universal access to all Novell services when building network applications. NDPS functionality will be available to customers in Summer 1996 with the next release of NetWare. In the future, Novell's Extended Networks Division will leverage the final NDPS software and APIs to create a NEST development kit for printer manufacturers to embed NDPS technology in their products. ISVs interested in additional information should contact Novell DeveloperNet at 1-800-NETWARE.
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