News Brief

Novell Completes Acquisition of Cambridge Technology Partners
Jack Messman Becomes President and CEO

PROVO, Utah — July 10, 2001 — Novell, Inc. today announced it has completed the acquisition of Cambridge Technology Partners (Massachusetts), Inc., adding a powerful new services and consulting capability to complement Novell's industry leading Net services software. Jack Messman, president and chief executive officer at Cambridge Technology Partners has been named president and CEO of Novell. Eric Schmidt, formerly CEO, will continue to offer strategic counsel as chairman of the Novell board of directors. continued...

Please join Novell's new president and CEO, Jack Messman, at 11:00 MT on Wednesday July 11 to discuss how the combined companies will be able to leverage synergies and execute on an innovative "go-to-market" strategy in order to best deliver on existing market opportunity. The conference call details are below or, alternatively, you can view the webcast at http://www.novell.com/news/webcast/.

Conference telephone number:
Dial In: 888/857-6932
Dial In: 719/457-2604
Replay: 888/203-1112
Replay: 719/457-0820
Replay Passcode: 519393
The replay is scheduled to run from 4:00 pm MT on 7/11 through 7/18 at midnight.