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BindView Corporation
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BindView Strategy Benefits Novell Net Services Customers

Salt Lake City, BrainShare 2000—March 27, 2000

BindView Corporation (NASDAQ: BVEW), a leading provider of IT risk management solutions, today unveiled its strategy to help customers manage Novell’s Net Services including NDS eDirectory and associated NDS-enabled applications. BindView will be delivering new capabilities to reduce and manage the risks threatening the safety, integrity, and availability of the critical components in NetWare enterprises.

BindView’s flagship product NOSadmin for NetWare will be extended to improve the management and security of NDS eDirectory, GroupWise, ZENworks, and BorderManager. In addition, BindView is offering the bv-Admin product family for managing the heterogeneous enterprise, including technology formerly shipping as the NDS plus pack from their Entevo merger.

"As the demand for secure e-Business solutions accelerates, BindView continues to meet the challenge," said Richard Linville, vice president of Novell’s Partner & Industry Marketing. "By working closely with our development teams, BindView’s products are paralleling Novell’s strategy to simplify the complexities of eBusiness by providing solutions which operate across all types of networks — intranets, the Internet, and extranets; corporate and public; wired to wireless."

In order to effectively protect and manage Novell’s Net Services, including NDS eDirectory and the associated e-business services and business-critical applications that depend on it, customers need to report, analyze and enforce a variety of IT policies. Addressing these requirements, the NOSadmin product family includes capabilities for:

• Controlling Novell Directory Services (NDS). NOSadmin for NetWare is the premier security and systems management solution that pinpoints and eliminates threats to the safety, integrity and availability of the NDS enterprise. BindView will be enhancing its capability to provide security and management of GroupWise, ZENworks and BorderManager. These new capabilities include:
• NOSadmin for NetWare will incorporate specific fields that will allow Mail, Application, and Firewall administrators the ability to fully evaluate the configuration and security of these NDS-enabled applications.
• NOSadmin for NetWare will also incorporate the ability to administer and report upon multiple NDS trees to help migration efforts or maintain the current NDS structure.
• NOSadmin for NetWare will also have specific fields for administering Novell Distributed Printing Services (NDPS).
• Controlling NetWare server platforms. NOSadmin for NetWare is the leading server solution that provides a complete management solution for file server configuration, documentation, and with ActiveAdmin, the ability to make enterprise-wide configuration changes. Upcoming capabilities for this module include:
• IP Administration
• NOSadmin for NetWare will be enhanced to provide NetWare administrators an easy way to manage, report and make changes with our ActiveAdmin® technology to the critical areas of IP administration. Specifically the ability to report and administer TCP/IP and DNS/DHCP setting on an enterprise level.
• Improved scooping
• NOSadmin for NetWare will include enhanced granularity of its query-based scoping functionality. NetWare administrators will now have increased flexibility in selecting specific sources of information as well as combinations of source data. The improved scoping enables reporting and administration of the key areas of server management in the most optimum way possible.

In order to meet the challenges of a rapidly evolving infrastructure, customers need to manage multiple platforms including NetWare 4, NetWare 5, Windows 2000, Windows NT, and UNIX. To ensure seamless operation, companies require a single point of administration for managing these mixed environments. To address this requirement, BindView’s bv-Admin product family enables cross-platform management from a single interface.

"BindView has been committed to supporting Novell’s product directions and customers for almost ten years," stated Marc Camm, vice president of marketing for BindView. "Our adoption of Novell’s Net Services including NDS eDirectory was a natural evolution of that commitment. BindView will continue to deliver products to assist our mutual customers in controlling their enterprise and e-Business infrastructures."

Founded in 1990, BindView is a leading provider of IT risk management solutions for controlling enterprise and e-Business infrastructures. BindView’s award winning solutions enable corporate IT professionals to effectively leverage their existing technologies to achieve their business goals. To control IT risks, more than 7 million licenses of BindView’s solutions have been shipped worldwide to approximately 5,000 companies, including more than 75 of the Fortune 100 and 22 of the largest 25 U.S. banks. Contact BindView via e-mail at info@bindview.com or visit BindView's World Wide Web Site at http://www.bindview.com. BindView can also be reached at (800) 749-8439 or at (713) 561-4000.