NETWARE DIRECTORY SERVICES FUELS SUCCESS OF NETWARE 4

Industry Analysts Pick NDS as Leading Directory; NetWare 4.1 Wins PC
Magazine's Editor's Choice Based on Strength of NDS

PROVO, UT--May 22, 1995--Since the introduction of NetWare 4.1 five months
ago, growth in deployments of this advanced network operating system have
increased the number of NetWare 4 nodes shipped worldwide to approximately
6 million. NetWare 4 is gaining momentum as customers, industry analysts
and trade publications recognize the benefits of NetWare Directory
Services (NDS).

"Forrester's top pick to win the directory battle [is] Novell," stated
Forrester Research, Inc., in a spring 1995 report titled "Scaling Mail."
"As NetWare 4.1 gains momentum in large accounts, NDS will become a de
facto part of the infrastructure."

In its May 30, 1995, edition, PC Magazine gave its prestigious Editor's
Choice award to NetWare 4.1 based on the superiority of NDS. Additionally,
customers throughout the United States have made the NetWare 4.1 World
Solutions Tour, which showcases third-party business solutions integrated
with NDS, one of the most successful seminar series in Novell's history.
"NetWare Directory Services is the future of our network," said Evan
Trebing, network engineer for the United States Geological Survey. "While
some of our network administrators were initially skeptical, today they
can't do without NDS. It gives us 'one-stop shopping' for all network
administration. It provides reliability and redundancy to ensure network
services are available when needed. Additionally, it allows us to
customize our network, turning it into a collection of optimized services
rather than a series of isolated, all-purpose servers. NDS is rock solid,
and we're so pleased by its performance that we want to make NDS the
central point of integration for our entire information system."

NetWare Directory Services turns a multiserver network into a single,
integrated information system that is easier to access, easier to
administer, and less expensive to own, operate and maintain. NDS gives
users a single point of access to all network information and resources
they need. It gives administrators a single point of administration,
saving companies time and money. As the industry moves toward pervasive
computing, NDS provides the most robust, reliable and secure directory
available today.

INDUSTRY ANALYSTS CHART SUCCESS, IMPORTANCE OF NDS

In addition to the Forrester report forecasting NDS as the leading
directory, other industry analysts have recently cited the importance of
NDS:

** Computer Intelligence InfoCorp, in a spring 1995 report charting the
momentum behind NetWare 4.1 as Novell's installed base begins buying more
NetWare 4 than NetWare 3, states that " . . . a major factor in the trend
toward greater acceptance of NetWare 4.1 is the growing number of
applications that can take advantage of the directory services that
differentiate NetWare 4.1 from NetWare 3.12."

** A March 1995 report from Sentry Market Research shows that as more
customers begin migrating to NetWare 4, Microsoft NT Server is being
largely deployed in the LAN Manager installed base and is making no
inroads into the NetWare installed base. Sentry sees NetWare Directory
Services as a key reason for NetWare 4's increasing success.

** Also in a March 1995 report, META Group Inc. notes that "notably absent"
from the list of NOS vendors providing directories is Microsoft, "as its
strategy forces users to wait until 1997 for the Cairo object-based
directory." (META Group, Global Networking Strategies, March 27, 1995, No.
350)

CUSTOMERS LEARNING HOW NDS BENEFITS THEIR BUSINESS TODAY

Novell and 24 partners kicked off the NetWare 4.1 World Solutions Tour in
April, giving customers the chance to see firsthand a new generation of
network solutions that are tightly integrated with NDS, making networks
easier to use and administer and less expensive to own, operate and
maintain. Products being demonstrated include fax, backup, database,
paging, voice messaging, network management, antivirus and document
services. The 24 hardware and software partners joining with Novell for
the NetWare 4.1 World Solutions Tour range from long-time industry
leaders--including Oracle, Sybase, Motorola and Cheyenne--to new companies
setting technology trends, all delivering solutions that take advantage of
the power and flexibility of NetWare 4 and NetWare Directory Services. The
tour will visit 25 cities in the United States and Canada, and will
continue on to Europe, Australia, South America and Japan. More than 2,000
people have preregistered for seminars scheduled for Frankfurt, Germany in
June.

PC MAGAZINE GIVES NETWARE 4.1, NDS TOP HONORS

The PC Magazine Editor's Choice award is one of seven "top product" honors
awarded to NetWare 4.1 by industry magazines such as InfoWorld, PC Week,
Network Computing and LAN Magazine. In its comparison of leading network
operating systems, PC Magazine selected NetWare 4.1 over Microsoft Windows
NT Server, OS/2 LAN Server (Entry and Advanced), Banyan VINES and NetWare
3.12. PC Magazine cited NetWare 4.1's integrated management utility,
improved management facilities and improved installation, but said the
most compelling reason for its decision was NetWare 4.1's global
directory: "Why did we give the nod to NetWare 4.1? Quite simply, because
of Novell's NetWare Directory Services, a distributed database of network
resources that provides a single point of management . . . No other
directory services system is as robust. NDS is also extensible: Developers
can add both objects and attributes for network applications."

NETWARE 4.1: THE ONLY NETWORK READY FOR TOMORROW, TODAY

Released in December 1994, NetWare 4.1 is the latest version of the NetWare
4 network operating system. NetWare 4.1 simplifies network access,
simplifies network administration, and reduces the cost of network
ownership for businesses of all sizes while retaining the performance,
reliability and scalability that have made NetWare the overwhelming NOS
leader. As the only network operating system that provides the seven
essential network services--file, print, directory, security, messaging,
multiprotocol routing and management--NetWare 4.1 lays the foundation for
pervasive computing, Novell's vision of connecting people to other people
and to the information they need, allowing them to act on it anytime,
anyplace.

In Novell's first fiscal quarter of 1995, sales of NetWare 4 more than
doubled over sales in the fourth fiscal quarter of 1994 and increased to
represent nearly 30 percent of the company's total NetWare NOS revenue.
Fueled by the shipment of NetWare 4.1, this aggressive market growth
signals the industry's growing recognition of NetWare 4 as the emerging
NOS standard. More information about NetWare 4 can be found on the World
Wide Web at http://www/NetWare.com.

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