PROVO, Utah — Dec. 13, 2002 — Volera, the content networking solutions subsidiary of Novell, has been consolidated into its parent company. The consolidation of Volera into Novell will reduce expenses while giving Volera access to the support, development and quality assurance resources necessary to accelerate Volera’s move toward profitability.

"While Volera the company becomes part of Novell, Volera’s content delivery networking (CDN) solutions will continue to serve its customers, benefiting now from a strengthened stable of engineers and a larger support organization," said Chris Stone, Novell’s vice chairman, Office of the CEO. "Novell has long had a rock-solid reputation as a provider of quality technology and solutions, and Volera customers will learn quickly why that is the case. We remain committed to providing Volera customers and partners the service and solutions they expect, just as we are committed to growth and profitability. Consolidating Volera into Novell is the best way to accomplish both."

In addition to the benefit to Novell’s bottom line with the elimination of duplicate expenses, Volera solutions will leverage Novell’s resources to become more competitive in the CDN market recently vacated by Inktomi, CacheFlow and others. Volera has been a majority-owned subsidiary of Novell with Nortel Networks and Accenture holding a minority interest. Novell has acquired the interest of Nortel and Accenture, making Volera a wholly owned subsidiary of Novell. Within Novell, Volera’s CDN solutions will become part of Novell Nterprise, a set of services that improve communication, simplify and automate network management, and allow workers to be productive regardless of location, device or platform.

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Novell, Inc.
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