Novell Chairman and CEO Offers Insights Into Future of Network-Centered
World

Robert Frankenberg Delivers Keynote Address at Networld + Interop

NETWORLD+INTEROP, Las Vegas -- April 3, 1996 -- In a keynote address
delivered Tuesday at Networld+Interop, Robert Frankenberg, Chairman and
CEO of Novell, Inc., shared Novell's vision of the new era: a
network-centered world. He examined the increasingly central role that the
Internet plays in today's marketplace, and the information technology
industry's shift from client/server to client/network computing.

"We believe that the opportunities in a network-centered world are even
greater than they were in the client/server computing era," Frankenberg
said to an audience of several thousand technology vendors and business
customers from around the world. "The concept of 'client-network'
transcends yesterday's market model and recognizes the central role the
net will play, in addition to the important roles of clients and servers.
It's another way of looking at the Web. Today's Web provides document
access service to anyone with a browser; tomorrow's Web will provide other
network services in the same way."

Frankenberg emphasized Novell's central role in the creation of the LAN
market, the extension of that market to wide area networks that
interconnect NetWare LANs, and the extensions of these WANs to the
intranet by taking the Internet model and integrating Novell services with
web services and browsers. Novell's vision is a global network that
includes all the Internet's standards and innovations--such as the World
Wide Web, Web browsers, and Sun's Java--as well as Novell's network
services such as directory, security, authentication, management and
transaction processing. The keynote included demonstrations of important
new ways that Novell technology and products provide solutions for small
businesses and larger distributed networks across the enterprise. The
demonstration showcased 15 Novell products that are shipping or will ship
by the end of the year. Novell Directory Services (NDS), the de facto
industry standard for finding and managing network-based information and
resources, was central to several of the demonstrations, including an
electronic commerce demonstration in which a small business user was able
to view a file created in an application he didn't have by "renting" the
application from a server. Another demonstration focused on a corporate
intranet illustrated how a unique web page for every employee--including
photo, job title and other information -- can be automatically generated
by the Novell Web Server immediately upon request and always be up to date
because it draws on information housed in NDS.

Novell also demonstrated its ability to connect people and the information
they need anytime or anyplace: a remote worker using NetWare Mobile to
connect to his company's network was able to use Mobile IPX to switch to a
2MB wireless connection, without interrupting the flow of data.

Frankenberg also announced a new promotion for Novell's GroupWise e-mail
and collaborative computing solution. The promotion targets NetWare
customers running Microsoft Mail, who will be able to receive up to 50
GroupWise 4.1 client licenses, free of charge. The promotion will last for
60 days when Microsoft Exchange ships.

GroupWise currently has 5.5 million users worldwide. Frankenberg invited
the audience to test the implementation of a GroupWise messaging system
for use by all attendees at this year's Networld+Interop. The system
allows conference attendees to send and receive all types ofmessages
including e-mail, voicemail, scheduling requests, pages and more. At
Networld+Interop Spring 1995, over 3 million messages were sent by 95,000
users during the three exhibition days; this year, Frankenberg expects
that record to be broken.

Novell (NASDAQ:NOVL) is the world's leading network software provider.
Novell software provides the 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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