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Novell Ships NetWare® 5 Early Again NetWare 5 Benefits Now Available to Organizations Worldwide in Seven Languages PROVO, Utah — October 21, 1998 — Closely following the English version of the company's flagship product, Novell, Inc. today announced the early shipment of six additional localized versions of NetWare 5, including Portuguese, French, Italian, German and Spanish. A Japanese version is expected to ship by Oct. 23. Novell continues to deliver NetWare 5 ahead of schedule to organizations and corporations worldwide, providing them with the ability to run reliable, scalable and secure networks based on open Internet standards, including support for pure TCP/IP. Novell's channel partners are enthused about the customer demand for NetWare 5. "We strongly support and are recommending our customers convert to NetWare 5," said Mike Skinner, president of Ideal Technology Solutions, a solutions integrator from Royal Oak, Mich. "NetWare 5 has become a major initiative for our company and we're seeing a great deal of interest from our customers to go to the pure IP environment of NetWare 5." NetWare 5 is supported by a broad spectrum of networking services, including support for Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) version 3, Novell® Directory Services® (NDS™), NDS for NT and Z.E.N.works™ — all contributing to easy, time- and cost-efficient network administration. "The barriers of geography and technology that once impeded the flow of information are rapidly falling away," said Dr. Eric Schmidt, Novell Chairman and CEO. "NetWare 5, with its Novell Directory Services and foundation of Internet standards, gives businesses the secure and manageable networks they need today to compete and thrive in this global context. The availability of NetWare 5 in multiple languages is one more way that Novell solutions transcend the traditional barriers, enabling organizations everywhere to establish their identities on the world stage."
New Customers Are Deploying NetWare 5 In addition to the existing 81 million users that are excited about NetWare 5, new customers are installing NetWare 5 in mission-critical network environments. The Chicago Mercantile Exchange recently decided to replace 52 OS/2 and 18 NT servers with 14 NetWare 5 servers. "At the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, downtime is not an option—so we went with NetWare 5 for our core networking services," said Jeff Miller, senior enterprise network engineer, Chicago Mercantile Exchange. "We are also going to leverage NDS to manage our remaining NT servers which will cut our administrative costs by 70 percent."At the Community College of Southern Nevada, Tom Wilson, a senior systems administrator, had a new and challenging problem to solve. "We had to manage 35,000 users and two independent organizations with the same hardware and software without duplicating any efforts," said Wilson. Novell provided the only practical solution with NetWare 5, BorderManager™ and NDS. "We have successfully deployed this solution with four administrators. That's practical efficiency," said Wilson.
NetWare 5 Drives Timely Upgrades With the broad and robust business values of NetWare 5, customers are utilizing the remaining time prior to Year 2000 lockdowns to implement pure IP and Z.E.N.works, increasing bandwidth utilization and decreasing the cost of discovering, resolving and maintaining Year 2000 compliance on desktops.Businesses across the globe have evaluated more than 350,000 pre-release copies of NetWare 5. Because of the product's stability, many businesses, including Novell, have been using the third beta as part of their production networks and are planning to implement the released version of NetWare 5.
Running Java in Windows Environments NetWare 5 is Novell's first server operating system to include the Java™ Runtime Environment (JRE) for Windows* 95 and Windows NT*. The JRE includes the Java Virtual Machine (JVM), just-in-time (JIT) compiler, class libraries and other Java extensions to decrease the complexity of running Java in Windows-based environments. The 100 percent Java support in both the NetWare 5 client and the network server ensures that the thousands of Java applications, both today and in development, run well on NetWare 5.In an overwhelming show of support for NetWare 5, developers have created over 1,000 applications and products that have earned the Novell Yes, Tested and Approved designation. More than 600,000 Java developers can now develop applications to NetWare 5.
Novell Customer Services Novell Education's pre-release programs prepared thousands of networking professionals to assist customers in their deployment of NetWare 5 networks. Currently, more than 3,500 Novell partners have been trained on NetWare 5 through Novell Boot Camps and another 5,000 have completed Novell PowerSell™ sales training. Worldwide, more than 1,450 Novell Authorized Education CenterSM facilities are already educating IT professionals through extensive NetWare 5 seminars, courses and a new CNE® curriculum.End users are currently taking advantage of Novell's "Now Starts Here" tour which focuses on the Internet, Year 2000 and network security issues. More than 6,000 end users have attended the first 12 stops of the tour. Presentations in 38 additional cities are scheduled through Nov.18. The tour is consistently attracting standing room only audiences at each venue. For a complete tour schedule, access the Web site at http://www.novell.com/events/nw5launch/dates_locations.html. In an effort to make NetWare 5 upgrades and new server installations as smooth and quick as possible, Novell Customer Services has created a NetWare 5 migration service offering. The customizable packages on consulting, education and technical support services will assist customers before, during and after implementation of NetWare 5. The migration packages, which will be available in mid-October, offer knowledgeable consulting, accessible project coordination, assistance and support and valuable training for NetWare 5 planning, design, implementation and maintenance. For more information, visit http://support.novell.com.
About Novell Novell, Inc. (NASDAQ:NOVL) is the world's largest network software company and the leader in directory-enabled network solutions. Novell solutions make networks more manageable and secure and reduce the total cost of ownership for organizations of every kind and size. Novell's worldwide channel, developer, education and technical support programs are the most extensive in the network computing industry.For information on Novell's complete range of products and services, contact Novell's Customer Response Center at (888) 321-4CRC (4272), or visit Novell's Web site at www.novell.com. Press may access Novell announcements and company information on the World Wide Web at www.novell.com/pressroom. Novell, NetWare, and Novell Directory Services are registered trademarks, CNE is a registered service mark, NDS, Novell PowerSell, and Z.E.N.works are trademarks and Novell Authorized Education Center is a service mark of Novell, Inc., in the United States and other countries. *Java is a trademark or registered trademark of Sun Microsystems, Inc., in the United States and other countries. Windows and Windows NT are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation.
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