Novell Offers 50 Free GroupWise Licenses To NetWare Customers Running
Microsoft Mail

Easy Migration To The Industry's Most Scalable Messaging System Challenges
Microsoft Exchange

NETWORLD+INTEROP, Las Vegas, -- April 2, 1996 -- Novell, Inc. today
announced a GroupWise promotion targeted at NetWare customers running
Microsoft Mail. As MS Mail users look to upgrade to an advanced messaging
system, Novell will offer up to 50 GroupWise 4.l client licenses, a
Message Server NetWare Loadable Module (NLM) and the Microsoft Mail
Migration Utility-free. The promotion will last for 60 days following the
shipment of Microsoft Exchange.

The GroupWise Universal In Box provides a common store for all incoming
messages, allowing users to handle calendaring, scheduling, routing and
tasks as well as receive faxes, Internet mail and voice mail messages in
one place -- whether it is via the LAN, Internet, the telephone or a
remote location. A common store for messaging and appointments is not
offered with Exchange or MS Mail, which rely on secondary products such as
Schedule Plus to handle scheduling and calendaring.

"Microsoft customers, particularly MS Mail customers, have been waiting a
long time for Exchange to ship. With this GroupWise promotion, we are
giving our NetWare customers who use MS Mail the opportunity to upgrade to
our proven advanced messaging system," said Stewart Nelson, vice president
and general manager of Novell's GroupWare Division. "NetWare customers
considering a move from MS Mail to Exchange must install NT servers solely
for the purpose of using Exchange; this will result in substantially
increased administrative overhead." -- One GroupWise user, Joe AuBuchon,
program manager, information systems at McDonnell Douglas said, "We
considered Microsoft Exchange previous to choosing GroupWise 4.1 and found
it did not meet our various enterprise requirements. Therefore, we are
committed to GroupWise and future GroupWise next-generation solutions."

"As companies migrate from file-sharing mail to the next generation of
client/server mail products, they have the opportunity to reassess which
vendor's strategy best suits their needs," said David Marshak, senior vice
president of The Seybold Group, a Boston-based market research firm.
"GroupWise 4.1 and the forthcoming GroupWise XTD could be a logical
alternative for companies making this move."

Advantages Of GroupWise Over Exchange

The promotion further leverages three key advantages of GroupWise over
Exchange: a true Universal In Box with multiple access points, tighter
network administration and proven scalability of GroupWise and NetWare.

Tightly synchronized with NetWare, GroupWise administration is performed by
the same utility program, NWAdmin, thus offering unparalleled
administrative efficiencies, according to Novell.

With the forthcoming GroupWise XTD, all GroupWise users, post offices,
gateways, and servers exist in NetWare Directory Services as objects in
the Directory Tree. This allows all administration and management to be
done through this single point of administration.

Finally, GroupWise XTD management will be integrated with NetWare's
ManageWise tool, allowing administrators to leverage integrated management
functionality across the enterprise.

In contrast, Exchange and Windows NT have separate administration programs
which require NetWare customers to administer their Exchange system, the
NT domain directory and NetWare separately.

Furthermore, GroupWise's support for multiple server platforms means it is
completely scalable and can be easily integrated into heterogeneous
environments, thus allowing organizations to maintain their current
investment in equipment and operating systems. Supported server platforms
include NetWare 4.X and 3.X, OS/2 and UNIX, with additional support
planned for Windows NT with GroupWise XTD.

And, GroupWise natively supports a total of 16 gateways for seamless
integration between the GroupWise system and foreign systems. In contrast,
Exchange supports only three gateways: X.400, SMTP and MS Mail.

GroupWise XTD Offers Additional Advantages

"The first-generation, unproven Exchange will not offer advanced messaging
functionality, such as document management integration and workflow, both
of which will be tightly integrated with GroupWise XTD," added Nelson.

For more information about this promotion, customers can call (800)
258-5408 or visit Novell's home page at http://www.novell.com.

Novell (NASDAQ:NOVL) is the world's leading network software provider.
Novell software provides infrastructure for a networked world, enabling
our customers to connect with other people and the information they need,
anytime and anyplace. Novell partners with other technology and market
leaders to help customers make networks a part of their everyday lives.
 
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