Growth of Novell's Directory-Enabled Intranets Make IntranetWare Worldwide
Best Seller
Industry-Leading Networking Vendors and Fortune 1000 Customers Line Up
Behind IntranetWare
PROVO, Utah, March 26 /PRNewswire/ -- On the heels of four strategic
partnership announcements and the appointment of its new CEO, Eric Schmidt,
Novell Inc at BrainShare highlighted IntranetWare's leadership in server
shipments, its 41 percent year-over-year growth, and that many of the
world's most successful companies are choosing Novell to provide their
mission critical, directory enabled intranets.
"Novell continues to lead the worldwide server operating system market in
terms of total license shipments," said Lee Doyle, Vice President of IDC.
"This is true for the 4th quarter of 1996 and for 1996 as a whole."
According to the most recent market analysis from International Data
Corporation (IDC), combined license shipments of NetWare and IntraNetware
were 25% greater than NT Server in 1996. In terms of total network
connections shipped last year, customers purchased 20.5 million network
nodes from Novell -- 26% more than NT server's 1996 node shipments.
Customers are valuing what Novell is doing to make NT and other systems
better networking components. By integrating NT and UNIX systems with
Novell's IntranetWare, GroupWise, ManageWise and NDS, Novell is being
singled out as a leader in open and heterogenous solutions.
Novell's largest customers, which number among the Fortune 1000, look to
Novell as a provider of enterprise networking and heterogeneous support.
These companies include: Ameritech, Amoco, Amway, BASF, BellSouth, Baxter,
Cargill, Chrysler, CNA, FedEx, Ford, FP&L, GM, GMAC, J.P.Morgan, Lufthansa,
Meijer, Principle Financial, State Farm among others.
But the Fortune 1000 isn't the only group looking at Novell as a leading
intranet solutions provider. This week at BrainShare, attendees saw Novell
make several partnership and technology licensing announcements that
accelerate the migration of the traditional LAN to business intranets that
take advantage of Internet technologies. Novell and Netscape announced the
forming of a joint venture company called Novonyx to integrate
directory-enabled network services form both companies. Novell and Oracle
announced a strategic alliance to provide an integrated environment for
directory enabled networked applications running on IntranetWare. Also,
Novell and Sun Microsystems announced they are expanding their alliance so
IntranetWare users can use Sun's Project Studio to quickly and easily create
Java-based applications. To further the widespread adoption of CORBA and
IIOP, Novell and Visigenic Software Inc. today announced that Novell has
licensed Visigenic's leading object request broker (ORB) technologies for
use within IntranetWare. |
