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To: ToySoldier who wrote (27191)	6/15/1999 9:29:00 PM
From: WE89	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42771

ObjectSpace Reaches Licensing Agreement With Novell for Voyager Product Line; Companies Are Partnering to Integrate Voyager Technology for Networking Customers DALLAS, Jun 15, 1999 (BUSINESS WIRE via COMTEX) -- ObjectSpace Inc.,the premier provider of Internet and Intranet solutions, Tuesday announced it is partnering with Novell, a global leader in networking, to implement a powerful new Java-centric object request broker (ORB) technology into Novell's products. The Novell-ObjectSpace partnership will bring universal ORB functionality to its networking customers, and will combine Java portability with its Novell Directory Services (NDS) which will make networks easier to use and manage. Combined with the robust technology of NDS, Voyager(TM), ObjectSpace's standards-neutral, 100% Pure Java(TM) family of distributed computing products, will streamline application design, shorten development cycles, reduce costs, and make applications easier to maintain and modify. Voyager's robust underpinning for writing applications to large markets and its universal platform make it possible for Voyager to leverage Java's dynamic capabilities and to transparently interface among incompatible ORB standards while allowing components to interact across the wire without being aware that they are communicating remotely. "This partnership will give Novell and its customers greater freedom to build networks that connect more globally than ever before," said David Norris, ObjectSpace president, CEO and co-founder. "The ongoing goal at ObjectSpace is to establish the Voyager platform as the technology of choice for creating Intranet and Internet solutions." "Novell is always seeking to satisfy customer needs with solutions and software which complement Novell products in their effectiveness and quality," said Art Nevarez, chief architect for Novell's Java Technology Group. "Novell sees the Voyager product family as a leading ORB and smart networking infrastructure that forms the basis for adaptive, intelligent Application Server technologies that are widely available to NDS users." ObjectSpace Voyager speeds development and simplifies maintenance by leveraging existing JNDI implementations while monitoring and managing programs from its management console. All this, coupled with innovative features like Dynamic Aggregation(TM) and its support for mobile agents, makes Voyager an ideal choice for distributed computing requirements. Voyager users write just a single line of code to dynamically CORBA-enable Java objects at runtime without modification. Rich messaging, parallel multicast and publish/subscribe with future and one-way dynamic remote construction allow developers to quickly design and build advanced solutions. "Novell is delighted with ObjectSpace's efforts in seeking to provide Novell and its customers the freedom to connect more globally and personally to the user's needs," said Chris Stone, senior vice president of strategy and corporate development. "Combined with market-leading NDS and Java and ORB interoperability, Voyager is providing technology that will help pioneer networking in a new, more productive era." ObjectSpace ObjectSpace, with headquarters in Dallas, is an industry-leading provider of products and services focused on creating Intranet and Internet Solutions. ObjectSpace award-winning products provide the foundation for real-world solutions. When combined with the company's industry-recognized consulting and training services, a complete solution quickly becomes a reality. ObjectSpace is the recipient of numerous industry and business awards, including Inc. Magazine's 1998 Inc. 500 Award; Deloitte & Touche's 1998 Technology Fast 500 Award; JavaWorld 1998 Editor's Choice Award for ObjectSpace Voyager and JGL(TM); and Java Developer's Journal 1998 Editors' Choice Award for JGL. ObjectSpace has offices throughout the United States and utilizes an extensive worldwide distribution network. Customers include AMD, EDS, Novell, Sprint, Boeing, Chevron, Cisco, Chicago Board of Trade, ClubCorp, Global Mobility Systems, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Kodak, Lehman Brothers, Lucent Technologies, Motorola, Texas Instruments, Peapod, Nortel, and PageMart. For more information on ObjectSpace solutions, contact the company at 972/726-4100 or visit online at objectspace.com. Voyager is a trademark of ObjectSpace Inc. Java and 100% Pure Java are trademarks of Sun Microsystems. All other tradenames, trademarks and registered trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

To: ToySoldier who wrote (27191)	6/16/1999 5:16:00 PM
From: t2	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42771

Hi Toysoldier, Nice story for you on Novell. Check out the section on the "winners". I thought it would be a good idea to drop by your "town" today. Enjoy!!<g> cbs.marketwatch.com Online drives Wall Street IT spending Financial industry seen spending $24.2 billion by 2002 By Emily Church, CBS MarketWatch Last Update: 4:54 PM ET Jun 16, 1999 Silicon Stocks NEW YORK (CBS.MW) -- Wall Street firms appear likely to spend more money on information technology than most in the industry had expected, thanks to a push into online trading. Total IT expenditures are seen hitting $24.2 billion in 2002, growing at a rate of 7.1 percent per year from 1998, according to the TowerGroup, which on Wednesday released results of its survey of some 250 companies. The tech industry had been bracing for a steep slowdown in IT spending in the second half of the year. Many worried that firms would cut spending on Year 2000 efforts and even stop investing in technology ahead of the millennium. And while spending is seen slowing from the 26.5 percent compound annual rate between 1996-1998, the outlays aren't likely to stagnate either, Tower said. "I think we're going to continue to see robust spending in IT," said Larry Tabb, research director. A shift in spending on the Internet is driving the growth. Tabb was at the Securities Industry Association conference in New York. "Merrill Lynch's plans to trade online at lower prices is the kind of technology deployment that's at the heart of it," he said. The companies are expecting that some 50 percent of all their stock and mutual fund orders from retail customers will be received through an electronic channel, up from an estimated 19 percent today. As a result of those expectations, companies look prepped to spend heavily to bring their businesses online. Tower estimates that Merrill's (MER: news, msgs) spending some $2 billion this year on IT, the most for any single company. Morgan Stanley Dean Witter (MWD: news, msgs) is second, at an estimated $1.5 billion. The winners Wall Street is showing little sign of changing a tendency to do much development work in house, the survey shows. But, the spending trend could still deliver some winners for the vendors. "All of the people providing the plumbing of the Internet are just going to grow like gangbusters," he said. The survey stayed away from specific vendors, but companies like equipment makers Cisco (CSCO: news, msgs), Lucent (LU: news, msgs), Internet service providers and hosting services and telecommunications carriers such as MCI WorldCom (WCOM: news, msgs) to name a handful, fit the profile. NT vs. UNIX Software and hardware spending isn't seen growing as strongly. Those companies are expected to spend 2.3 percent of their IT budgets on software and 4 percent on hardware. Services, meanwhile, are expected to absorb 21 percent compounded from 1996 to 2002. On the software server side, Novell (NOVL: news, msgs) looks likely to lose significant market share, according to the respondents. Microsoft's (MSFT: news, msgs) Windows NT has emerged as the new platform of choice for Wall Street firms, growing some 130 percent in the last two years, Tabb said. "There's a good horserace for server software between Unix and NT," he added. Sun Microsystem (SUNW: news, msgs) is primarily a UNIX vendor. Unix is forecasted to have a 49 percent share of the companies vs. 44 percent for NT in 2002, Tower said. Emily Church is the New York Bureau Chief for CBS MarketWatch.S