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Novell Announces GroupWise Support for Intranet Document Management Standard PROVO, Utah -- May 5, 1997 -- Novell, Inc. today announced that GroupWise, through its Jefferson Project technology, will be the first product to support the recently announced intranet extensions to the Open Document Management API (DMA). The intranet extensions expand the scope of existing ODMA standards, to which the GroupWise document management system currently adheres, by providing a framework for linking ODMA-compliant document management systems to corporate intranets. Any document created with an ODMA-compliant document management system will now be accessible through a Web browser. Novell will comply with the new ODMA standard through the Jefferson Project, Novell's technology initiative that enables GroupWise users to publish and update information on the Internet and intranets as easily as creating and modifying information within their favorite desktop application. Any changes made to the content or the access rights of a document are automatically reflected in that document on the Web, eliminating the need for constant republishing of Web pages. The Jefferson Project is server-based technology that is integrated with GroupWise and will be available for IntranetWare and Windows NT environments later this year. "GroupWise is committed to giving our customers choice by supporting important industry standards," said Stewart Nelson, vice president and general manager, Novell Applications Division. "That's why we are the first document management system to support this intranet standard. Our customers want to extend the GroupWise document capabilities they have today to their intranet users. The Jefferson Project will simplify the process of accessing and managing documents on the World Wide Web and put the power of Web publishing into the hands of everyone." "This standard will allow everyone on our corporate intranet to experience powerful document management capabilities," said Jim Shaw, Operations Manager, CompNet Service. "In addition, with the Jefferson Project, we will be able to let casual users -- employees who don't regularly work on a PC or don't use the GroupWise client -- take part in document management through a Web browser, without further investment in software or training. Novell's support of standards like this continues to improve the functionality and results we receive from GroupWise." Novell is a current sponsor of the ODMA Task Force, an industry coalition established by the Association for Information and Image Management International (AIIM) that is responsible for developing this new set of intranet extensions to the ODMA standard. The ODMA intranet extensions consist of a technical specification for using Web communications standards, such as URLs, to locate and access documents across an intranet. The URLs can be processed by CGI, ISAPI or NSAPI Web servers and use other Web standards including HTML and HTTP. This provides authorized users with access to documents from any client device that is able to run a Web browser. Jefferson Project Leverages ODMA Standard Any document that has been saved in a GroupWise library and marked as a shared Internet or intranet document will automatically be compliant with the ODMA intranet standard and accessible from any Web browser or ODMA-compliant document management system. The document will be converted to HTML and will reflect the organization's look and feel whenever it is requested by a user. The Jefferson Project is intelligent enough to designate multiple presentations of the same document to accommodate the diverse Internet presentation capabilities of desktop computers, laptops, personal digital assistants (PDAs) and televisions. Within the GroupWise document management system, all documents remain in the native format in which they were created, allowing users to easily update documents they have posted to the Web without having to learn HTML. All changes to a document are reflected immediately, ensuring that users' subsequent requests for that document will always return the latest update. When long documents, such as research papers, are requested from users on the Web, the Jefferson Project automatically publishes a table of contents to the users, saving Web users -- especially home users relying on modems -- unnecessary waiting time by allowing them to preview lengthy documents before choosing to download them. The table of contents feature also lets users download a portion of a document rather than the entire document. Pricing, Availability and Platforms The Jefferson Project will go into open beta this summer and will be available for download from Novell's Public Beta Web site at http://support.novell.com/home/pubbeta/. Further details on pricing, upgrades and distribution will be made available when the product ships later this year. The ODMA intranet extensions are published on the AIIM Web site at http://www.aiim.org. Additional information about GroupWise and the Jefferson Project can be accessed on the World Wide Web at http://www.novell.com/groupwise, or through any Novell office. GroupWise is Novell's premier collaboration product for intranets and is the industry's only expanded E-mail system to include full document management capabilities as part of a Universal Mailbox. The Universal Mailbox also gives users single-point access to personal calendaring, group scheduling, tasks, voice mail, faxes, documents, images and other message types both from the desktop and via the Internet using GroupWise WebAccess. GroupWise WebAccess allows users to access the Universal Mailbox from any HTML-compliant Internet browser. 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. Novell is registered trademark, and GroupWise, GroupWise WebAccess and IntranetWare are trademarks of Novell, Inc. 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