Novell® Provides Customers With Year 2000 Solutions
Novell Directory Services (NDS™) Provides the Fastest Way to Manage
and Analyze Year 2000 Issues
PROVO, Utah -- Jan. 5, 1999 -- Novell today announced that it is
prepared to provide its customers with a full line of Year 2000 solutions
including more than 90 Y2K-ready products and Y2K updates and tools downloadable
from Novell's Web site at http://www.novell.com/year2000. With the millennium
just around the corner, organizations must identify problems that will
arise in their networks due to the Year 2000 software issue. By providing
many of these Y2K updates, Novell is extending the customer's investment
in their mission critical networks.
"Novell has gone to great lengths to ensure that our products are ready
for the next millennium. As our customers continually analyze their Y2K
problems, our products provide them with solutions and answers to these
issues," said Eric Schmidt, chairman and CEO of Novell. "Novell will be
taking more networks into the 21st century than any other company; being
Year 2000 ready isn't a question, it's a given."
"By providing customers with Y2K products in a timely fashion, Novell
is continuing to demonstrate a high level of commitment and leadership
which its customers need to be able to maintain a competitive advantage
in the fast-paced world of network computing," said Bob Sakakeeny of the
Aberdeen Group. "Check 2000 and Information Ferret are two products which
can provide customers with a set of tools to efficiently and effectively
make their businesses Y2K ready."
With NetWare® and Novell Directory Services, customers can inventory
their managed network environment and identify specific hardware and software
components, then utilize this data to analyze their network environment
and its Year 2000 exposures. Novell's directory-enabled products provide
customers with a solution to quickly administer Year 2000 assessments from
a single workstation. To address Y2K problems from the server and client
level, Novell offers the Y2K Information Ferret™ tool and Greenwich Mean
Time Check 2000™ software. These two tools, along with Novell Y2K-ready
products, give IS managers and CIOs the information needed to take their
businesses into the next millennium.
The Year 2000 Information Ferret tool is a free Windows® 95/98/NT
client-based tool that queries servers for Novell products and identifies
the Y2K status of Novell products. The resulting report provided by Novell
includes the Year 2000 status of Novell products, as well as update and
upgrade recommendations when Novell products are not Year 2000 ready. Novell
intends to deliver more than 300,000 copies of the Year 2000 Information
Ferret tool to customers worldwide this month. Customers have already downloaded
more than 10,000 copies of the tool from Novell at http://www.novell.com/year2000/tools.html.
Check 2000 is a Windows product that checks PCs for Year 2000 risks.
Z.E.N.works™ 1.1 ships with a 5-user version of Check 2000, and additional
licenses can be purchased through Novell. It analyzes five levels of the
Year 2000 problem: BIOS, OS, Applications, Data and Data Exchange. Based
on Novell Directory Services, Z.E.N.works provides software distribution,
desktop maintenance and desktop management to make using Windows-based
PCs and thin clients easier for end-users while reducing costly maintenance
and troubleshooting tasks for administrators.
Check 2000 with Z.E.N.works identifies and alerts network administrators
to potential Year 2000-related issues at the desktop and assists them in
repairing problems by pushing manufacturer's recommended solutions or other
fixes to all network desktops and resources. The combination of these two
products provide a powerful combination that will help businesses assess
their networks for Year 2000 issues, deploy Year 2000-ready products and
apply appropriate fixes to ease the transition into the next millennium.
About Novell
Novell, Inc. (NASDAQ:NOVL) is the leading provider of network software
enabled by directory services. Novell Internet 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 http://www.novell.com.
Press may access Novell announcements and company information on the World
Wide Web at http://www.novell.com/pressroom.
This document is a Year 2000 Readiness Disclosure.
Novell, NetWare and Novell Directory Services are registered trademarks
and Ferret, NDS and Z.E.N.works are trademarks of Novell, Inc. in the United
States and other countries. Windows is a registered trademark of Microsoft
Corporation. All third-party trademarks are the property of their respective
owners.
Press Contacts:
Blake Stowell
Novell, Inc.
Phone: (801) 228-5083
Internet: bstowell@novell.com
Julie Geer-Brown
Cunningham Communication, Inc.
Phone: (650)858-3736
Internet: jgeerbrown@ccipr.com
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