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Novell Declares NetWare 3.12 and 4.11 Ready for the Year 2000 Network Leader Provides Y2k Patches and 3.2 Enhancement Packs for Greater Functionality and Y2k Readiness PROVO, Utah -- December 8, 1997 -- Novell announced today that NetWare versions 3.12 and 4.11 have satisfied the requirements of Project 2000, a corporate-wide plan initiated more than eighteen months ago to validate product performance relating to Year 2000 issues. "The Project 2000 process has validated that Novell 3.12 and 4.11 networks will perform as reliably as ever in the next century," said John Slitz, Novell's senior vice president of marketing. "The Year 2000 issue is about customers' concerns that their information systems may fail. The news from Novell is that NetWare networks do not die, and they do not fail -- not in this century and not in the next one." Novell's Project 2000 testing showed that the core NetWare operating system will correctly handle all date situations related to the Year 2000. Novell, however identified minor issues related to a few utilities and how they display and/or print two-digit years. Novell has addressed these issues with software enhancements, which are now available in beta for free and can be downloaded from www.novell.com/p2000. "Because the NetWare operating system has stored the current date and time as a number of seconds since January 1, 1980, the transition to the Year 2000 will be a smooth one," said Glenn Ricart, Novell's chief technology officer. "NetWare 3.12 and 4.11 will continue to provide the reliability our customers depend on, allowing them to move seamlessly and safely into the next millennium without any Year 2000 problems." Final versions of the Year 2000 enhancements for NetWare 3.12 and 4.11 will be available for free by 12/31/97. Customers can find them at www.novell.com/p2000. In order to use the enhancements, customers must upgrade from NetWare 3.11 and all prior versions to NetWare 3.12. Continuing its commitment to customer satisfaction, Novell today announced the NetWare 3.2 Enhancement Pack. These NetWare 3.12 add-ons improve system reliability, performance, administration, while also including the Year 2000 enhancements. (See "Novell Announces NetWare 3.2 Enhancement Pack", 12/8/97) All NetWare products will have completed Year 2000 testing by 12/31/97, with all other Novell products scheduled to complete testing by 3/31/98. The objective of Project 2000 is to a develop a stable NetWare operating system platform for customers to test their systems for Year 2000 issues. Additional Project 2000 information can be found on Novell's Project 2000 web site. 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.
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