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Media Alert Monday, March 11, 1996
Runtime Version of Netware Free With Netware Web Server
What: Novell's NetWare Web Server now includes the core NetWare 4.1® operating system, NetWare Runtime.
Significance: Customers now have the option to cost-effectively deploy the NetWare Web Server in a dedicated server, if desired. (It's expected many network managers will prefer a dedicated server, rather than a production file-and-print server, for both Internet and Intranet applications.) Also, the addition of Runtime makes the NetWare Web Server even more competitive in price to other web-server offerings, including Microsoft™'s Internet Information Server (IIS).Novell added NetWare Runtime to the NetWare Web Server in direct response to requests from customers and resellers. This addition makes NetWare Web Server more than competitive in price to other web server offerings. For example, Microsoft recently announced it was giving its IIS away for free with its Windows NT® 3.51 operating system. However, customers must first purchase or upgrade to server version 3.51 of NT, which has a stre et price of US$699. Since NetWare Web Server has a list price of US$995, there is virtually no price difference between the two offerings because the Novell list price translates into a $700 street price.
Description: NetWare Runtime enables users to implement the NetWare Web Server as a stand-alone web server that can be used by virtually any number of people. This complete software system for NetWare 4.1 servers gives customers a powerful, easy tool to publish information on the Internet and Intranets.NetWare Runtime is a fully operational, two-person version of NetWare that allows customers to fully deploy the NetWare Web Server on a stand-alone machine without having to purchase an additional NetWare license. As a stand-alone web server, the NetWare Web Server can operate in a NetWare 3.x environment. (Customers who want to run their NetWare Web Server on top of a production NetWare 4.1 file-and-print server need to have a production license of NetWare 4.1.) Although NetWare Runtime is restricted to two NetWare (IPX) users, NetWare Web Server can handle thousands of simultaneous connections per minute. That is because users accessing the TCP/IP NetWare Web Server will come in over a TCP/IP or IPX/IP gateway connection, not directly from an IPX environment.
Availability: The product is available now through Authorized Novell Channel Partners. For more information about NetWare Web Server, visit Novell's home page at http:www.novell.com.
Novell: Novell, Inc. (NASDAQ:NOVL), is the world's leading networking software provider. Novell software provides the infrastructure for networked world, enabling our customers to connect with other people and they 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.Novell and NetWare are registered trademarks; and NetWare 4 is a trademark of Novell, Inc. Microsoft, Windows and Windows NT are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation.
Press Contacts:
Mark Griffiths
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