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To: Scott C. Lemon who wrote (30668)	3/9/2000 9:32:00 AM
From: Spartex	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42771

NOVELL'S NETWARE 5 MARKET SHARE RISES 5% TO 55% IN 1999 (The following is a reformatted version of an electronic mail press release issued by Novell Netware.) NOVELL NETWARE SALES CONTINUE TO GROW IN A BUOYANT EUROPEAN NOS MARKET NETWARE 5.X GROWS 77 TIMES FASTER THAN THE MARKET London, March 8 -- Data to be released next month from IDC confirms that NetWare outperformed all the competition including Microsoft Windows NT for all recorded node shipments last year. Overall the increased importance of NetWare 5 resulted in a market share increase of 50% in 1998 to 55% in 1999 (IDC, 2000). In addition, IDC confirms that average nodes shipped per license is actually 84% higher with NetWare (35) when compared with Windows NT (19). Elis Nemes, vice president, Novell EMEA said, ``The growth in NetWare has been significant because our customers are moving their businesses to one Net. As customers expose their business to the Net, they expect to have robust, scaleable and secure platforms. Novell secures and powers one Net environments and its Net services provide organisations with the power to change by adapting and accelerating their transformation to e-business. As Novell NetWare has a first class reputation in all of these areas we are seeing significant growth in NetWare sales. Our customers are serious about using their networks for web based applications, directories and management.' The significance of operating systems other than NetWare and Windows NT continues to decline and has fallen to a combined total of 5% of all licenses shipped last year. For 2000, IDC expects continued growth in the NOS market in Western Europe. This growth will be primarily driven by the launch of projects that were postponed because of Y2K. Earlier this month to promote NetWare 5.1, Novell launched an e- business initiative in Europe, Middle East and Africa. This initiative, sponsored in conjunction with IBM will include seminars in 90 cities over the next few months. Interested customers can register at Pim Bilderbeek, vice president of European Network Research, IDC said, ``Scalable directories, web-based application platforms, and robust server operating systems are crucial to companies running mission- critical e-business networks. This is all included with NetWare 5.1. That's a compelling message.' Even with a NOS market that grew 8% in license shipments and 13 % in node shipments in 1999, Novell expects the introduction of NetWare 5.1 to continue the growth of NetWare 5.x faster than the overall European NOS market. Press Contacts: Maria Richardson Novell, EMEA Phone: +44 1344 724000 E-mail: maria_richardson@novell.com Brian Green Novell EMEA. Phone: +44 1344 724000 E-mail: bgreen@novell.com (db)LO -END- -0- (CRL) Mar/08/2000 11:47 quote.bloomberg.com

To: Scott C. Lemon who wrote (30668)	3/9/2000 8:28:00 PM
From: PJ Strifas	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 42771

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