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ITT Fluid Technology Standardizes on Novell's GroupWise Messaging and Collaboration Solution Chooses Novell Solution for Worldwide Network Serving 6,500 Users Provo, Utah — June 9, 1998 — Novell, Inc. (NASDAQ:NOVL) today announced that ITT Fluid Technology, the world's largest pump company and one of the three core businesses of ITT industries, has selected Novell's GroupWise 5 to enhance communication and collaboration among its 6,500 desktop PC users at 166 sites in over 20 countries. GroupWise 5 will replace Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft Mail, and Lotus CC Mail across the ITT Fluid Technology global information network, providing users with integrated e-mail and groupware applications. ITT Fluid Technology evaluated available enterprise collaboration solutions and elected to standardize on GroupWise 5 on the basis of a lower total cost of ownership, including dramatically lower costs for hardware, deployment, and ongoing administration and maintenance. In addition, ITT Fluid Technology determined that GroupWise 5 offered added value in the form of integrated workflow and document capabilities, remote access to E-mail and other applications over the Internet, and integration with NDS (Novell's industry-leading directory service) and related network management tools available on Novell's NetWare intelligent network server platform. "GroupWise enables us to leverage our Novell network infrastructure and roll-out a full-featured e-mail and collaboration solution without incurring large new costs for administrative overhead and server hardware," said Andy Kiolbasa, Infrastructure Chief of Technology for ITT Fluid Technology. "We gain powerful new workflow and document management tools, available right out of the box. At the same time, we can continue to build on the directory-enabled networking services and tools that Novell's NetWare platform provides." By enabling single-point administration through its master directory, NDS, GroupWise 5 allows network administrators at ITT Fluid Technology to centrally and hierarchically manage users, groups, network devices and applications. NDS helps ITT Fluid Technology reduce the time and cost of network administration and take advantage of directory-enabled tools such as Novell's new Z.E.N.works solution to distribute client software and manage user desktops. "GroupWise also allows us to expand the added network functionality we get from NetWare, including the ability to quickly add and delete users from the Messaging system and the network," said Kiolbasa. A further advantage of GroupWise for ITT Fluid Technology is GroupWise WebAccess, which allows the GroupWise client to be implemented as a home page on the Internet or Intranet. ITT Fluid Technology personnel can simply enter the home page URL, a mail ID, and password from any HTML 3.0-compliant Web browser and gain access to GroupWise. This allows remote and mobile users to read and send mail, check calendars, listen to voice mail, and view attachments, tasks, and notes over the Internet. As an international organization, ITT Fluids also intends to take advantage of GroupWise support for multiple languages. GroupWise 5.2 is available in Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese Simplified, Chinese Traditional, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Kanji, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Russian, Spanish, and Swedish. The architecture of GroupWise supports multiple languages (both single-byte and double-byte) on the same system. About GroupWise 5.2 Novell's GroupWise 5.2 seamlessly integrates calendaring/scheduling, task management, shared folders, threaded conferencing, workflow, remote and Internet access into a Universal Mail Box. GroupWise 5.2 is platform independent, fifth-generation client/server Messaging solution. Novell's next GroupWise release, GroupWise 5.5, is now in beta and scheduled for release later this year. About ITT Fluid Technology ITT Fluid Technology, with headquarters in Upper Saddle River, New Jersey, is one of the three core businesses of ITT Industries and the world s leading manufacturer of pumps, systems and services for the movement, measurement and control of fluids. ITT Industries (http://www.ittind.com) is a leading worldwide diversified manufacturing company, with 1997 sales of $8.6 billion in its three primary business segments: Automotive, Defense and Electronics, and Fluid Technology. ITT Industries stock is traded under the symbol (IIN) on the Midwest, Pacific, London, Frankfurt and Paris exchanges. 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, as well as the network computing industry's most comprehensive education and technical support programs. Information about Novell and its complete range of products and services can be accessed on the World Wide Web as http://www.novell.com. GroupWise, Novell and NetWare are registered trademarks and NDS is a trademark of Novell, Inc. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.
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