Press Release

Find Your "Cyber-Soulmate" with Novell

New Interactive Web Site Offers Fun Discovery of Novell LAN WorkPlace 5 Features

SAN JOSE, Calif. -- January 17, 1996 -- Kate is the first to arrive at your party, touches all of your food without eating any of it, then gets in a fight with your dog. Mack travels to France for the fries and toast, and parks his car in the loading zone at the airport. Jen thinks she is so important that she will cut in line in a funeral procession, and is always willing to give unwanted advice and scathing criticism. Sound like some crazy cross-pollination of "Friends" meets "Melrose Place?" Think again--these eccentric folks are all characters in Novell's new interactive Web site "Find Your Cyber-Soulmate," which promotes the many features of Novell's industry leading Internet connectivity software LAN WorkPlace 5. This new interactive Web site demonstrates the ease with which information can be delivered to customers, partners and employees through technology such as Novell's LAN WorkPlace 5 and NetWare Web Server.

Found on Novell's Web site (http://iamg.novell.com/iamg/internet/soulmate/), this promotion invites participants to read about characters who could use the assistance of LAN WorkPlace 5. Each character represents the challenges of different features of information access partners such as remote access, reliability, sharing information and networking--all of which are met by the features of LAN WorkPlace 5. After reviewing each screen, participants are asked to take a quiz to test their new knowledge of LAN WorkPlace 5, after which they are automatically entered into a semi-monthly contest to win a T-shirt, and into the grand prize drawing to win an IBM ThinkPad Butterfly.

"This interactive Web site demonstrates to our customers the effectiveness of the Internet as a delivery mechanism," said Mark Griffiths, director of marketing Novell Internet Commerce Division. "Through this fun interactive experience, users will learn how this powerful tool can enhance connectivity, access to information and data sharing."

LAN WorkPlace 5 is the industry-leading desktop connectivity product that gives users a full suite of easy-to-use applications for fast, concurrent access to a wide range of TCP/IP, Internet and NetWare resources. For more information on Novell, its products and Internet solutions, visit the Novell World Wide Web site at http://www.novell.com.

Novell (NASDAQ:NOVL) is the world's leading network software provider. Novell software provides the infrastructure for a networked world, enabling our customers to connect with other people and the information they need, anytime and anyplace. Novell partners with other technology and market leaders to help customers make networks a part of their everyday lives.

Press Contacts:
Ken Montgomery
Alexander Communications
(415) 923-1660
Internet: kmontgom@alexander-pr.com

Melanie King
Novell, Inc.
(408) 577-6842
Internet: melanie_king@novell.com