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HP and Novell Announce Bundling of Novell Directory Services With HP9000 Enterprise Servers and Workstations HP Becomes First RISC Vendor to Bundle NDS, an LDAP-enabled Directory OREM, Utah and Palo Alto, Calif., -- March 12, 1997 -- Novell, Inc. and Hewlett- Packard Company (HP) today announced that HP will become the first RISC vendor to bundle Novell Directory Services™ (NDS™), a Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) enabled directory. NDS is the most widely used network directory services with more than 20 million users and 24 percent worldwide market share. Novell will license NDS, royalty-free, to HP to embed a single-server version of the directory service into all HP-UX operating systems and platforms. The single- server NDS product includes LDAP, which is key to integration of Internet applications and will be available free to HP-UX customers. NDS provides users with a global view of all network information and resources through a single log-in to the network. By having automatic access to NDS, users will improve productivity by decreasing the time spent to navigate and manage enterprise networks. HP will also license from Novell an add-on directory-to-directory replication and synchronization functionality. This additional functionality, code named by Novell as ScalePack, also will be embedded into the operating system and can be enabled easily through the purchase of a license key for operation. Users of ScalePack can extend the single-server NDS functionality they receive with their operating system by taking advantage of server-to-server replication and synchronization. This will provide network-wide single log-in and a single point of administration. "Novell partnered with HP to support our common objective of lowering the complexity and the total cost of ownership for network computing through the use of NDS," said Tom Arthur, vice president and general manager of Novell's Internet Infrastructure Division. "Embedding NDS into all major server operating systems is a win-win-win situation; operating system vendors enhance the value of their products; networked applications have the most robust LDAP service to utilize; and users get single log-in and advanced navigation." "Directory and security are the core services needed to build Internet and intranet applications. The directory services and security tools a customer chooses will depend on their businesses, IT environments, and distributed computing strategies," said Carol G. Mills, general manager of HP's Enterprise Systems Division. "HP's Praesidium Security Solutions, together with network and system management and NDS, provide a solid foundation for security-enhanced Internet-based electronic business and represent a formidable combination." NDS for HP Available Now& in the Future NDS already is available to HP-UX users now as a separately ordered product named NetWare 4.1 Services for HP9000. HP will continue to offer NetWare 4.1 Services for HP9000, which include file, print and NDS as an add-on product. The bundled single-server and ScalePack versions of LDAP-enabled NDS are expected to be available this fall. An early adopter program is expected to be available this summer through HP. With this agreement, HP will leverage the open-standards support of NDS, making NDS its bundled LDAP-enabled directory and ensuring that HP users can create a unified directory infrastructure for organizations' heterogeneous network environments. As a result of this licensing agreement and previous licensing contracts, NDS is now available to a majority of the world's UNIX system users. These partners are creating momentum for NDS to become the industry's ubiquitous network directory. This agreement will play a key role in the HP Colliance program by providing a bundled LDAP-enabled directory service, NDS. The HP Colliance program delivers enhanced integration between HP-UX and mixed NetWare and NT desktop environments. The HP Colliance program, the industry's strongest integration solution, offers network- and systems-management (NSM), security, messaging, distributed application access, connectivity, and Internet/object solutions. "With the bundling of NDS into HP-UX, NetWare file and print services for HP 9000, network and system management solutions, the HP Colliance program for integration, and industry-leading support, the HP 9000 is the best choice in enterprise servers and workstations," said Mills. Today's announcement broadens HP's existing global service partner relationship with Novell to include Novell's directory services now bundled into HP's operating system. HP's new support alliance with Novell places HP in a most favorable position to support mixed-platform environments, especially those characterized by UNIX systems/Novell's NetWare/NT interoperability. This is consistent with HP's overall strategy to provide customers with a full range of high-quality support services. NDS to Become the Ubiquitous Network Directory In November 1996, Novell announced an aggressive distribution program to give leading platform vendors and independent software vendors access to the capabilities of NDS. The new program involves giving software and hardware vendors, as well as developers, a royalty-free single-server version of this proven, open directory service. In addition, Novell will release a binary version of NDS for Microsoft Windows NT, available at no charge to developers and users in 1997. A Directory-enabled Network
About Novell Founded in 1983, Novell (NASDAQ: NOVL) is the world's leading provider of network software. The company offers a wide range of network solutions for distributed network, Internet, intranet and small-business markets. Novell education and technical support programs are the most comprehensive in the network computing industry. Information about Novell's complete range of products and services can be accessed on the World Wide Web at http://www.novell.com. About HP Hewlett-Packard Company is a leading provider of Internet and intranet solutions and the second-largest computer supplier in the United States, with computer -related revenue in excess of $31.4 billion in its 1996 fiscal year. Hewlett-Packard Company is a leading global manufacturer of computing, communications, and measurement products and services recognized for excellence in quality and support. HP has 112,000 employees and revenue of $38.4 billion in its 1996 fiscal year. Information about HP and its products can be found on the World Wide Web at http://www.hp.com/. Novell is a registered trademark; and NDS and Novell Directory Services are trademarks of Novell, Inc. (1) HP-UX 9.x and 10.0 for HP 9000 Series 700 and 800 computers are X/Open Company UNIX 93 branded products. HP-UX 10.20 is an X/Open UNIX 95 branded product. X/Open is a registered trademark, and the X device is a trademark of X/Open Company Ltd. in the UK and countries. UNIX is a registered trademark in the United States and other countries, licensed exclusively through X/Open Company Limited. Microsoft is a U.S. registered trademark of Microsoft Corporation. Windows is a U.S. registered trademark of Microsoft Corporation.
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