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Technology Stocks : Novell (NOVL) dirt cheap, good buy?
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To: DJBEINO who wrote (17538)9/25/1997 12:08:00 AM
From: DJBEINO   of 42771
 
Novell Wants To Play Internet Cop For Aussie Schools

Novell Wants To Play Internet Cop For Aussie Schools 09/24/97 SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA, 1997 SEP 24 (NB) -- By Stuart Kennedy, Computer Daily News. Novell Australasia [NASDAQ:NOVL] has sworn itself in as Internet cop with the local launch of its BorderManager Internet firewall-cum-user access control package. With its days of holding a virtual PC network operating system (NOS) monopoly over, and Windows NT eating into its NOS revenues, Novell is looking for bucks in the network services arena.

These days NOS revenues form about 60 percent of Novell's revenues, but within two years, says Novell Australasia Managing Director Cliff Smith, the company hopes to have its revenue stream split one third each between groupware products, the IntranetWare products and network services products.

BorderManager fits in the latter category. It acts as security firewall on one side of a network and a user access controller on the other. Using Novell's NDS to tag people on a network it can screen who gets to see what Web content, right down to single users.

Novell believes schools are a natural BorderManager market and already has a school pilot site in the form of the Lismore Diocese Catholic Education Office. It runs a network across 48 schools in northern NSW.

"We have high hopes," said Smith, of planting BorderManager across the 2200 school New South Wales (NSW) Education Department wide area network. Last week Novell won a contract to supply 115,000 GroupWise and IntranetWare licenses to the NSW Department of School Education.

Licence pricing for BorderManager begins at A$160 for a five-user pack and comes down to around $60 a node for 250 users.

Coming in November is the BorderManager Fast Cache product which is touted as being able to handle 4000 Web site hits per second.

(19970924/ Reported By Newsbytes News Network: newsbytes.com
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