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Novell Wins PCWEEK Best of Comdex Award for NetWare 5.1
PROVO, Utah — Nov. 18, 1999 — Novell, Inc. today announced that NetWare® 5.1 was selected as the best networking software at the Fall Comdex trade show and received the coveted PCWEEK Best of Comdex award. Every Spring and Fall Comdex, PCWEEK judges spend countless hours scouring the halls of Comdex to find and select the best new products from among the hundreds that are introduced. NetWare 5.1 was selected for its focus as a Web application server platform, innovative Web-based tools for managing and administering networks and for its mature directory with Novell® Directory Services® or NDS® 8. "The Best of Comdex award signals to our customers, partners and resellers that NetWare 5.1 will be one of the most highly anticipated releases of NetWare," said Michael Bryant, director of NetWare product marketing, Novell, Inc. "To receive this recognition before the product has shipped is an even greater honor. Come February, the market will have more than one server operating system to talk about." NetWare 5.1 will provide customers with the ability to use Web-based applications on NetWare with the inclusion of IBM WebSphere Standard Edition for hosting Web applications and IBM WebSphere Studio Entry Edition for the tools needed to create those Web applications. NetWare will also include Oracle8i with Oracle WebDB for publishing and accessing Web databases. In an effort to provide customers with more secure access and control to their corporate networks, NetWare 5.1 will include the NetWare Management Portal™. The browser-based portal provides secure access to allow administrators to manage and monitor several aspects of their network including NDS, server status, health, identification of server problems, and server setting configurations. Novell brings eight years of directory leadership to NetWare 5.1 with NDS 8, the full service directory for helping companies reduce complexity and manage their entire heterogeneous network. NDS 8 will provide CIO's and their companies with the ability to manage their resources, reduce complexity and make their staff more efficient when dealing with enterprise networks.
NetWare 5.1 Public Beta Availability and Pricing Customers, partners and resellers may obtain a license to use the NetWare 5.1 public beta by contacting Novell at http://www.novell.com/netware5/beta or call 800-395-7135 in the U.S. or 925-463-7391 outside the U.S. The cost for the NetWare 5.1 beta software license is US$15 plus shipping and applicable taxes. Pricing and availability of NetWare 5.1 will be announced at a later date. About Novell Novell, Inc. (NASDAQ:NOVL) is the world's leading provider of directory-enabled networking software. Novell solutions give businesses total control of their private networks and the Internet, simplifying the management of user access and identity. Novell's worldwide channel, consulting, 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. In addition, detailed comparisons between Novell products and competitive offerings from other vendors are available on the Web at http://www.novell.com/advantage. For information on the Year 2000 status of Novell products, please access Novell's Year 2000 Web site at http://www.novell.com/year2000 or contact Novell's Customer Response Center at year2000@novell.com. Novell, NetWare, Novell Directory Services and NDS are registered trademarks of Novell, Inc. in the United States and in other countries. All other trademarks are the property of their respective holders.
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Julie Geer-Brown
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