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October 12, 1999
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VÉRITÉ MULTIMEDIA ANNOUNCES COMPLETION OF FIRST CORPORATE DVD-ROM FOR NOVELL CHANNEL ACADEMY

Salt Lake City, UT---Vérité Multimedia announces completion of the first of its kind, corporate DVD-ROM for Novell, Inc., the world’s leading provider of directory-enabled networking software.

Using brand new, cutting edge technology, Vérité Multimedia designed and produced the Novell® Channel Academy^TM QuickTrain DVD, after winning a competitive, national bidding process. Novell chose the local firm rather than a larger, national firm for many reasons including Vérité’s innovative use of technology.

"Vérité Multimedia has proven itself on other Novell initiatives by doing whatever it takes to make our projects successful," said Ladd Timpson, director of field and channel marketing services for Novell. "From the Internet to multi-media programs such as DVD-ROM development, Novell and Vérité are dedicated to providing the best products and tools for Novell’s channel partners to succeed while showing the greatest enthusiasm for venturing into the area of DVD-ROM development."

is part of the Novell Channel Academy’s continuing education model for Novell’s channel partners. Using video, voice narrated training tutorials and demos on select Novell solutions, partners learn which Novell product best solves each customer’s business problem. Partners may also lookup and use presentations for many of Novell’s products, or access and use demo files, customer testimonial videos and other key materials.

With Vérité Multimedia’s custom interface, Novell channel partners enter a virtual world of animation, videos and interactive demonstrations. The next generation of optical disc storage technology, the DVD operates much faster than the CD-ROM. It would take twelve CDs to include the eight gigabytes of data Vérité Multimedia has included on one dual-layer DVD-ROM disc.

"Working with Vérité Multimedia, we will continue to explore new ways to leverage DVD technology and provide our worldwide channel partners with the best tools and information about Novell’s Internet directory solutions," said Bill Wall, director of worldwide field and channel marketing for Novell.

Vérité Multimedia, is currently the only provider of custom interface DVD-ROM technology in Utah and is also one of the few DVD-ROM mastering companies in the state. The company specializes in marketing and training solutions with the most innovative, state of the art video, audio, print, Web site, DVD-ROM and CD-ROM technology available. Clients such as Symantec Corporation, Intel, Iomega Corporation, the State of Utah, and Hewlett Packard use Vérité Multimedia for their interactive campaigns, relying on them for both creative and technical solutions.

For more information, visit the Vérité Multimedia Web site at www.verite.com

Novell is a registered trademark, and Novell Channel Academy is a trademark of Novell, Inc. in the United States and other countries.