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To: Spartex who wrote (27301)	7/3/1999 1:10:00 AM
From: DJBEINO	Respond to of 42771

/02/99 - Novell gets intent on the Net -- Rolls out new technologies, alliances at PC Expo in New York -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jul. 02, 1999 (Computer Reseller News - CMP via COMTEX) -- New York - Novell Inc. put forth its Web face at PC Expo, rolling out new technologies and alliances that demonstrate its next focus is working the Internet. Intending to pursue the booming Internet caching market, Novell signed two OEM partners for its Internet Caching System (ICS) appliance. Quantex Microsystems Inc. and Pionex Technologies Inc. plan to release products this quarter. Pricing has not been determined yet. Novell designed ICS to improve the speed of Web servers by storing frequently accessed Web pages at local hubs. Provo, Utah-based Novell also has OEM relationships on the ICS appliance with Houston-based Compaq Computer Corp., which helped develop the appliance, and Dell Computer Corp., Round Rock, Texas. In fact, caching appliances will become a $1.6 billion market by 2002, according to Collaborative Research Inc., Los Altos, Calif. In addition, Novell's Internet Messaging Server will ship as a GroupWise bundle next week, company executives said. "Most higher-education accounts have academic licensing agreements that give them the right to use all our products already," said Tom Rhoton, marketing director at Novell. "Now they can give full collaboration services to their staff and students from one directory. The value-add is administering both accounts through one directory tree and the same administration console." A GroupWise plug-in to support Microsoft's Outlook 98 client is now in closed beta, said Rhoton. The anticipated ship date for the free plug-in is mid-July, he added. In related news, Novell last month acquired Ukiah Software Inc., a development shop that fits nicely into Novell's policy-based network vision. Ukiah, Campbell, Calif., develops policy-based network-management software that monitors bandwidth traffic. The tools help manage network infrastructure hardware, namely the routers and switches that regulate bandwidth flow. The Ukiah acquisition was intended to accelerate deployment of Novell's directory services and applications in customers' networks, which the company wants to grow 40 percent this year, said a Novell spokesman. In recent months, Novell has doubled its efforts to recruit network hardware partners, such as Lucent Technologies Inc., Nortel Networks Corp. and Cisco Systems Inc. The company hopes to position Novell Directory Services (NDS) as a network centerpiece that will store and manage a vast array of objects within the directory, including prioritized access applications and bandwidth, said company executives. David Gersic, director of operational systems support at Northern Illinois University in Dekalb, Ill., is beta-testing Novell's Quality of Service (QoS) initiative, code-named K-2. Although he likes the concept of directing bandwidth, he does not see an application in university environments, he said. "The political battles with Quality of Service make it difficult to implement in a university structure," he said. "It would be much easier to implement in corporations where they would have an easier sell because you can go by applications and rank on the [organization] chart."