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.
About Novell
Founded in 1983, Novell is the world's leading provider of network software. The company offers a wide range of network
solutions for distributed network, Internet/intranet and small-business markets, as well as the network computing industry's
most comprehensive education and technical support programs. Information about Novell and its complete range of products
and services can be accessed on the World Wide Web at novell.com.
NOTE: NetWare and Novell are registered trademarks, and IntranetWare, NDS and Novell Directory Services are
trademarks of Novell, Inc. All other registered trademarks and trademarks are the property of their respective holders.
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