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Novell's Awards Are Already Stacking Up in 1998 It's always gratifying to Novell when independent, objective reviewers such as technical publications and trade show judges honor the company with awards and accolades. It shows Novell's commitment to delivering the best possible products and services. Novell's perennial dominance of these industry honors demonstrates a long history of technical innovation and quality products. And although 1998 is only a few months old, Novell is already racking up so many awards from magazines and organizations that the total could surpass last year's banner year. In 1997, Novell products captured 27 different honors, including these highlights: intraNetWare: Server Operating System Product of the Year from Network Magazine GroupWise: World Class Award from Network World ManageWise: Systems Management Product of the Year from Network Magazine Novell Directory Services (NDS): Best Directory Service by LAN Times Novell Technical Support: Rated best in channel support by Network VAR In addition, Network Computing handed out "Well-Connected Awards" to intraNetWare, GroupWise, and NDS. You can see a complete list of awards for both 1997 and 1998 here. Bookmark that page to stay on top of other Novell honors as the year progresses. Following are some highlights of Novell's accolades and awards for 1998. Network Magazine Hall of Fame In March, Network Magazine inducted Novell into its newly inaugurated Hall of Fame, which honors companies that have won ten or more Product of the Year Awards since 1990. With 13 such awards, Novell ties Cisco Systems as the most-honored companies, followed by Hewlett-Packard, IBM/Lotus, and Network Associates each with 10. "When companies return to the winner's circle again and again," wrote Alan Zeichick, Network Magazine's editor-in-chief, "there's a clear pattern of excellence. We are delighted to induct five exceptional companies into our new Hall of Fame, telling our readers-and the world-that these organizations not only create outstanding products and service, but do so again and again." Related Links: intraNetWare Home Novell's full-service intranet platform GroupWise Home Novell's collaboration and messaging solution BorderManager Home Novell's integrated family of directory-based network services NDS Home The industry's most widely used directory ManageWise Home The complete management solution for heterogeneous networks Novell Education Home The industry-standard for training and certification of IT professionals E-mail this article to a co-worker, a friend, or the boss Give us feedback on this story Subscribe to future lead stories on novell.com NetWare / intraNetWare NetWare, Novell's flagship intranet platform and network operating system, continues to win major accolades with its version 4.11. The latest: Networking Solutions magazine has honored NetWare with its Product of the Year Award in the Network Operating System category. In bestowing the honor, the magazine highlighted Novell's directory, security, and expansion features and the large number of third-party products that support NetWare 4.11. Ultimately, the magazine writes, "Novell's integration of Windows NT with NDS for NT makes it a clear winner for managing the heterogeneous enterprise." Novell Directory Services NDS, the industry-leading global directory that won five major honors in 1997, is leading the way again in 1998. Its first major honor is Network Magazine's Product of the Year Award in the Directory Services category. The magazine described NDS as "a mature, widely available, distributed directory service that has a global, all-encompassing view of the network," and especially recognized Novell's new product NDS for NT, which allows NDS to manage Windows NT domains. NDS for NT was also named Innovation of the Year in the Networking category by the German publication PC Professional. The award was announced at CeBit '98 and will appear in the May issue of the magazine. novell.com