Press Release

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Meredith Bagnulo
Merritt Group
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Gordon Evans
Novell
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SALT LAKE CITY, Utah – March 27, 2000 – Novell Inc. (NASDAQ: NOVL), the world’s leading provider of directory-enabled networking software, and White Pine Software, Inc. (NASDAQ: WPNE), a leading provider of multimedia conferencing applications for the Internet and intranets, announced today that the two companies will demonstrate their visual instant messaging technology at BrainShare 2000, Novell’s annual developer’s conference being held this week in Salt Lake City.

White Pine and Novell originally announced a development partnership in October of 1999 in conjunction with the introduction of digitalme™ and instantme™. Novell is using White Pine’s CU-SeeMeÒ Web technology to video-enable its instant messaging client. Novell is also using White Pine’s MeetingPointÔ conference server to facilitate multipoint visual collaboration.

"With the complexities of e-business today, companies need business solutions to enhance, accelerate and simplify customer interaction," said David Shirk, senior vice president of product management for Novell. "This partnership with White Pine has enabled us to jointly develop a powerful new multimedia business communications tool for improving collaboration over the Net."

"We’re pleased to be building on this relationship with Novell and further developing our joint visual collaboration strategy," said Forrest Milkowski, vice president of strategic partnerships for White Pine Software. "Novell has a powerful presence in the enterprise world, so this relationship provides White Pine with an opportunity to deploy its visual communications solutions quickly to a broad business-to-business audience."

BrainShare 2000 is happening March 26-31 at the Salt Palace Convention Center in Salt Lake City, UT. For additional information about the conference, visit Novell’s web site at

Novell, Inc. (NASDAQ:NOVL), is a leading provider of Net services software that delivers services to secure and power all types of networks -- the Internet, intranets, and extranets; wired to wireless; corporate and public -- across leading operating systems. Novell's Net services software provides the foundation for one Net – a single global network that supports new applications and forms of business. Net Services software gives IT organizations a way to adapt and accelerate their transformation to e-business, simplify the management and control of all networks, create a secure foundation for doing business on the Net, and help deliver a consistent and high-quality experience to end users in all locations. Worldwide channel, consulting, education and technical support programs, along with strategic alliances, combine Novell Net services software with third-party products and services to form complete Net solutions.

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White Pine Software develops, markets and supports multi-platform browser-based internetworking software that facilitates worldwide video and audio communication and data collaboration across the Internet, intranets, extranets and other networks that use the Internet Protocol. White Pine’s videoconferencing software products, CU-SeeMe and MeetingPoint, create a client-server solution that allows users to participate in real-time, multi-point video, audio and data conferences over the Internet and intranets. White Pine Software can be found on the World Wide Web at

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