Subject: Y2K IN UK
Date: Mon, May 4, 1998 12:18 EDT
-- Novell to take more businesses into millennium then any other pro-active pan-european campaign is first to offer diagnosis, methodology and year 2000 readiness
Novell today announced that it has launched the first pro-active campaign by a major software company to offer its customers a Year 2000 assessment methodology and authenticated solutions for Novell products. The campaign piloted in January has received acclaim from European businesses desperate for assistance with the year 2000 issue. The campaign starts in the UK on 16th February, 1998.
More businesses choose to store information critical to their business on NetWare than on any other platform, said Andrew Sadler-Smith, managing director, Novell UK and Ireland. We want to ensure that these businesses are prepared for the Millennium. The combination of Novell's Year 2000 assessment, a comprehensive Year 2000 methodology and products already authenticated as "Year 2000 Ready" by a third party, along with seminars and a Year 2000
hot-line, will provide our customers with the help they need.
Novell, which according to IDC, will carry more Western European LAN business networks into the year 2,000 than any other vendor, will send details of the campaign to 500,000 customers across Europe, Middle East and Africa. The campaign pack highlights the issues faced by companies preparing to deal with the Year 2000 issue. It offers advice tailored to the customers specific Novell networking infrastructure to ready that network for the year 2000.
As a first step, Novell is providing customers with a Serial Number Identification Program (SNIP) to run on their networks. The "SNIP" tool identifies the serial numbers of installed Novell products, the results of which are returned to Novell, who will then be able to inform customers of the action they need to take to make their Novell Network "Year 2000 Ready." Novell is also providing its resellers with information to enable them to assist their
customers to prepare for the Year 2000 and is conducting briefings for organisations requiring more detailed assistance.
Camiel Camps, senior research analyst at IDC Europe, welcomes Novell's initiative: "The Year 2000 is a considerable issue for software and systems that are using dates in their calculations. It is a maintenance task of massive proportions with an immovable deadline. Few companies have the luxury of tackling the issue on their own without the aid of tools and vendors and it is good that Novell takes the lead and contacts its customers pro-actively." |
