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Novell Licenses Open Market Technology to Support Electronic Commerce on Intranets and the Internet
Leading Electronic Transaction Management Software to Run on
NetWare in Business Networks
BRAINSHARE '96, Salt Lake City, Utah -- March 18, 1996 -- Novell, Inc. today announced that it has licensed leading technology from Open Market, Inc. to enable a new generation of electronic commerce solutions for intranets and the Internet. Novell will integrate Open Market's OM-SecureLink technology with NetWare to provide customers with a high-performance, cost-effective solution for establishing and maintaining online storefronts and managing electronic transactions on the World Wide Web. These commerce services will complement the complete foundation of network services provided by Novell to enable a Smart Global Network interconnecting today's private business networks and the Internet. Novell will use OM-SecureLink technology to enable customers to connect their web server to Open Market's OM-Transact, the transaction management system for secure Internet commerce. These back-office services can be hosted by either a third-party provider or internally on the corporate intranet. The Open Market technology utilizes digital encryption technology to securely transmit "Digital Offers" from a customer's server to the back-office service provider. To ensure the integrity of the transactions, OM-Transact checks each "Digital Offer" using a secret key it shares with the customer. "Together with Open Market, Novell is developing solutions to provide an important step in delivering secure financial transactions," said Robert J. Frankenberg, Novell chairman and CEO. "The installed base of 3 million NetWare Servers, and the power of NetWare Directory Services to secure and manage customer networks, will make online storefronts and electronic transaction management an integral part of how people do business." "Partnering with a leading networking company like Novell is an important piece of our business strategy to make electronic commerce easy and readily available for companies who want to conduct business on the World Wide Web," said Gary Eichorn, CEO of Open Market. "By incorporating our technology with Novell's NetWare Web Server line, we've created a powerful combined solution for promoting Internet commerce." NetWare is an optimal platform for electronic commerce due to the secure, managed, high- performance environment created by NetWare Directory Services (NDS). The integration of OM-SecureLink with NDS will allow IS managers a substantial level of control over electronic commerce security issues by ensuring that transactions are authorized correctly. In addition, Novell customers will be able to outsource some of the complexity and cost of hosting the transaction management system by subscribing to NetWare Connect Services (NCS). The Novell and Open Market solutions will enable customers to support secure transactions while protecting existing investments in hardware and software. The solutions will improve cashflow for the customer, as electronic transactions can be processed and resolved faster than with all-paper mechanisms, and will enable cost reductions through outsourcing of the billing process. Businesses will also benefit from improved inventory management and processing of orders, an expanded ability to do business worldwide and 24-hours per day, and access to new customers and markets through the web. Novell plans to ship the Open Market technology in an integrated web server product in late 1996. Founded in 1994, Open Market, Inc. offers a full spectrum of high-performance business software products for the Internet. These products are revolutionary in their architecture, breadth, and functionality--and enable companies to re-invent the way they do business in the information economy. Open Market's software products bring the full range of business capability to the Internet and make enterprise-wide applications, secure electronic commerce, and industry-specific solutions possible. The company, headquartered in Cambridge, MA, can be reached at (617) 621-9500 or on the World Wide Web at http://www.openmarket.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.
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