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Technology Stocks : Novell (NOVL) dirt cheap, good buy? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Frederick Smart who wrote (27925)	8/29/1999 1:53:00 AM
From: DJBEINO	Respond to of 42771

Simplified Licensing -- Novell To Let Users Buy Licenses Online Aug. 27, 1999 (InformationWeek - CMP via COMTEX) -- Novell this week will start letting IT departments electronically purchase, receive, and manage licenses for its software. Through a partnership with BitSource Inc., a provider of automated license-delivery services, Novell will let IT departments purchase and receive licenses for NetWare, BorderManager, GroupWise, and other software online. The process can shorten the time needed to order licenses, simplify license management, and potentially reduce software costs. The partnership will let IT departments or their resellers place an order for a Novell product with BitSource, which pulls the license from Novell's back-end licensing engine. BitSource then E-mails licensing information to the IT department, along with a URL at which details of the license can be viewed. Information on licenses ordered from and distributed by BitSource is stored on a customer-accessible database. "Managing licenses is a big headache. If things move toward some kind of electronic license repository, it would be a big relief from an administrative perspective," says Albert Kendrick, network manager at a Lakewood, Colo., financial-services company. "I'd like some kind of database I can access over the Internet to verify my records and keep them up-to-date." It takes Kendrick one to three weeks to order additional licenses for his Novell software. "If I could shorten that to two days or less, it would help us to complete projects quickly," he says. Novell plans to distribute apps through BitSource, though the companies wouldn't specify when this will become available. Seventeen states offer tax exemptions for companies that have purchased software delivered to them electronically, potentially saving companies thousands of dollars. The online license-distribution service is available immediately at no charge to members of Novell's Customer Connection licensing program.