News Brief

Novell Portal Services 1.0 Service Pack 1 Now Available

PROVO, UT — July 24, 2001 — Service Pack 1 for Novell Portal Services 1.0 - eBusiness software that personalizes, secures and focuses a user's business and key relationships - is now available. Novell Portal Services removes the barriers between intranets, extranets, the Internet, and wired and wireless networks while presenting users a single, unified view to the Net.

Novell Portal Services boosts employee productivity and enhances relationships with customers and partners by providing personalized, single-view access to files, collaboration tools, information and applications from all over the Net. With Novell Portal Services, users login with one-step authentication to gain browser-based access anytime, anywhere to applications and information based on their business context (roles, identity, location, workgroups, business hierarchy and any other identifying information that exists on the Net). Ultimately, Novell Portal Services raises productivity for a mobile workforce.

Features Service Pack 1 adds to Novell Portal Services 1.0 include:

  • support for internationalization
  • ease-of-use enhancements to administrative functions
  • three- to four-fold performance increases in scalability, speed and user capacity

Novell Portal Services is built on industry standards like Java, XML, HTML and LDAP, and it runs on eBusiness platforms such as Linux, NetWare, Solaris and Windows NT/2000. Novell Portal Services 1.0 Service Pack 1 is available for free download at http://www.novell.com/download.

Press Contacts:
Kevan Barney
Novell, Inc.
Phone: 801-861-2931
E-mail: kbarney@novell.com