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Novell Wins "Product of the Year" Awards From LAN Magazine
NEST and GroupWise Win Honors in Technology and E-Mail/Messaging Categories
OREM, Utah -- March 18, 1996 -- Novell, Inc.'s Novell Embedded Systems Technology (NEST) and GroupWise® were selected as the winners of the 1996 LAN Magazine Products of the Year award in the Technology and E-Mail/Messaging categories respectively. The selection criteria was based on a product's overall innovation, originality and ability to drive networking technology into the next decade. Winners were selected by LAN Magazine editors who consulted with integrators, analysts, industry luminaries, as well as LAN Magazine readers, writers and product reviewers. Melanie McMullen, LAN Magazine editor-in chief and a judge for the awards said, "NEST marks a significant advancement in networking technology. Since its launch in February of last year, NEST has dramatically extended the connectivity solutions that manufacturers can build into their products. With the recent addition of TCP/IP, NEST is positioned to become the leading technology for connecting information appliances to the Internet." McMullen was also impressed with GroupWise. "This year, we believe GroupWise was the strongest in its category. GroupWise was selected as Product of the Year for its ease-of-use, advanced messaging, seamless integration into the network and office environment and for its Universal In Box. The products which earn our accolades truly distinguish themselves and represent themselves as leaders in their class," noted McMullen. "We are excited to receive the 1996 Technology of the Year award from LAN Magazine and join a select group of past winners, including the Power PC and Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM)," said John Enslow, acting vice president and general manager of Novell's Extended Networks Division. "The rapid adoption of NEST by Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) demonstrates a powerful new paradigm for extending the network beyond traditional computing environments and connecting all types of information appliances to any type of network." GroupWise customers also validate LAN Magazine's selection of GroupWise Product of the Year for its innovation and ability to drive networking technology. "With GroupWise, our physicians and practitioners now communicate almost instantaneously with each other and with four other Dallas-area hospitals," said Don Ramsey, information technology architect of the Dallas Children's Medical Center. "When implementing a cross-hospital initiative in which a group of people are involved, we simply use the calendar and scheduling features to reach multiple people in multiple places. Overall, GroupWise has enhanced our productivity and ability to collaborate more effectively, saving us time and money."
NEST -- Technology of the Year Novell Embedded Systems Technology (NEST) gives Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) and developers a flexible, compact, affordable solution for creating products that can be plugged directly into both private business networks and public global networks like the Internet. More than 75 OEMs, including office equipment giants Canon, Hewlett-Packard, Ricoh, and Xerox, have partnered with Novell to develop over 200 NEST-enabled products, with several now shipping and dozens more to ship this year. "Productivity is driven by companies who provide users with efficient options, and we believe NEST will allow the user of Canon products to better do the jobs they perform day in and day out," said Ryoichi Bamba, Vice President and General Manager of Imaging Systems Marketing, Canon USA.
GroupWise -- E-Mail/Messaging Product of the Year With five million users worldwide including Kinko's Copy Centers and NordicTrack, GroupWise was the first and remains the only enterprise-wide, advanced messaging system to integrate electronic mail, personal calendaring, group scheduling, task management, Internet messages and faxes into the Universal In Box. The GroupWise Universal In Box allows users to access and act on information in one place, eliminating the need to piece together information from separate applications or gather information from several different locations. Because of its messaging-based architecture, GroupWise is able to deliver and receive information immediately instead of making users wait for predetermined replication periods. 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. Novell and NetWare are registered trademarks and GroupWise is a trademark of Novell, Inc. All other brand names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies.
Press Contacts:
Gina Trausch (GroupWise)
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