Novell Holds Executive Summit on Margins on Novell Utah Showdown

PROVO, Utah — Aug. 22, 2001 — Customers and partners from around the world joined Novell executives in Park City August 15 and 16 to discuss the state of the economy, the technology industry, and Novell's new solutions focus. Hosted by new Novell CEO Jack Messman, the executive summit included seminar sessions with Rich Karlgaard, publisher of Forbes Magazine, Gary Beach, group publisher of CIO and Darwin Magazines, and Neil McDonald, vice president and chief of research at the Gartner Group. Messman, joined by Novell's senior management team, outlined the benefits of the Novell/Cambridge merger for Novell customers, highlighting Novell's plans to move quickly to offer solutions combining the business process expertise of Cambridge Technology Partners and the technology strengths of Novell. Research presented to the Summit indicates that effective Web utilization in building new relationships with partners, customers, and employees is the top priority for today's CIOs. Novell technology is squarely aimed at addressing this challenge.

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