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Novell and Developer Partners Showcase New Applications Enabled by Novell Directory Services Developer Contest winners now in the running for grand prizes of up to $3 million investment and $25,000 cash; DeveloperNet program growing exponentially NetWorld + Interop, ATLANTA — October 21, 1998 — Novell, Inc. and its developer partners today showcased a new wave of network applications that use Novell's industry-leading directory service (NDS™) to provide customers with superior manageability, security, and access to information resources distributed across the enterprise and the Internet. Directory-enabled applications on display here at the Novell Partner Pavilion (Booth # 4905) include two categories of first-round winners in Novell's ongoing Developer Contest. The contest, which began in May and runs through August 1999, encourages developers to create applications that leverage NDS. The commercial category winner, now in the running for the grand prize of up to $3 million in venture capital from Novell's Internet Equity Fund, is HiTecSoft Corp. for the WebConsole 3.0 graphical network management solution. In the custom category, Clemson University and their Authentication Server network security solution wins first-round honors and is now qualified to win the grand prize of $25,000. More than 400 products now leverage the network management and security infrastructure provided by NDS, the world's most popular directory service with over 40 million users. In addition to the category winners, seven other contest finalists are teaming with Novell to demonstrate their directory-enabled applications: SBT Accounting Systems, Inc - SBT Executive Series; Plus Factor Software, Inc. - PlusFactor Office Pack; NetPro - DS Expert; Netoria - SF Lock; Network Associates - NetShield; Office-Net KKT - Niagra Mail; and Pervasive Software - Pervasive SQL. "Everyone wins in this contest — the customer, the developer and Novell," said Chris Stone, senior vice president of strategy and corporate development, Novell, Inc. "This contest exists to help developers take advantage of the Internet standards-based NetWare® platform and extends Novell's leadership in directory solutions that enhance the security, reliability, performance and manageability of networks." Clemson University's authentication server leverages NDS on many levels, providing seamless connections and expanding NDS security, making it the first-quarter winner in the custom application category. The solution leverages NDS to provide single-user ID and password authentication for seamless connections to NetWare environments, IBM mainframes, Microsoft Windows NT servers and flavors of UNIX including Linux and BSD. It also extends NDS authentication security to applications on these platforms by making NDS resources available to platform developers. As the winner of the Custom Application category, Clemson receives prizes including a vacation package for four, a DeveloperNet Professional subscription, a subscription to AppNotes and a chance for the $25,000 grand prize to be awarded in 1999. "If you can do one thing better than anyone else, you've found your place in the world," said David Condrey, LAN Systems Manager Clemson University. "Novell clearly has their place in the world. When it comes to our directory needs, we wouldn't have done anything differently. NDS has played the major role in unifying the campus, without a doubt." A simple, user-friendly client-side GUI combines with the power of NDS to make HiTecSoft's WebConsole v3.0a the first-quarter winner in the commercial category. WebConsole is a turnkey network solution that allows network administrators to securely access and manage NetWare file servers using NDS through a Web browser interface. Through WebConsole, administrators and help desk personnel can perform NDS commands such as adding, deleting and moving users, organizational units, and other NDS objects through the Web browser as well as administer passwords, set time restrictions, create incident reports, add and delete users, reset user accounts, and give printer access. Beyond the NDS functionality, WebConsole, is a complete server management solution allowing administrators to securely access, configure, troubleshoot, generate security reports, disburse patches, and monitor NetWare servers. Prizes awarded to HiTecSoft include priority consideration for Novell's Internet Equity Fund, inclusion in the BrainShare technology lab and Novell Partner Pavillion, Web banner on the Novell Solution page and other co-marketing opportunities. "We are very excited to win the Best Commercial Application award from Novell," said Sean Moshir, CEO of HiTecSoft Corporation. "WebConsole provides the best Web based management for Novell's NetWare today and we owe that to Novell's developer program. While developing WebConsole, Novell's DeveloperNet program was a great asset to us and I recommend it to all ISVs."
Novell DeveloperNet Program Growth The Novell Developer Contest builds on a year of exponential growth in Novell's developer programs. Since 1997, DeveloperNet membership has grown more than 300 percent and Website traffic has increased four-fold. Increased interest in the program is attributable to both NDS and NetWare 5, Novell's directory-enabled network server platform based on pure Internet Protocol (IP), for which more than 1,000 hardware and software products have received Novell Yes, Tested and Approved certification. In addition to platform and directory enhancements, new tools and interfaces make it easy for today's developers to leverage the NetWare platform, NDS, and Novell's complete foundation of distributed network services. For example, Metrowerks CodeWarrior for NetWare provides developers a common tool for creating NLMs and Java applications. Novell's DLL Loader now enables developers to create NetWare DLLs with Metrowerks, Microsoft and INPRISE™ compilers. Furthermore, Novell provides NDS components for popular technologies such as Java, JavaBeans, CORBA, ActiveX, LDAP, ADSI, Scripting and ODBC. Novell is currently conducting developer workshops in cities around the world to teach the gamut of NetWare 5, NDS™, Java™ and Oracle8™ development. The workshops are free for DeveloperNet members. Attendance has exceeded all expectations and has reached overflow capacity. For more information on Novell's developer programs, visit the DeveloperNet Web site at developer.novell.com.
Contest Details The Novell Developer Contest is open to Independent Software Vendors (ISVs), Java, Windows NT and UNIX developers, corporate developers, consultants, and students and is intended to drive the development of networked applications, directory-based services and manageability solutions. To qualify, entrants must develop an application that leverages NDS using Java, C, or any scripting language that runs on NetWare 5, and meet Novell's contest certification requirements. For complete contest details and rules, visit developer.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 and NDS is a trademark of Novell, Inc. All other trademarks are the property of their respective holders.
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