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To: DJBEINO who wrote (23888)	9/26/1998 2:10:00 PM
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Show Of Support For NetWare 5 Stuart Glascock Provo, Utah -- From Java developers to hardware OEMs and ISVs, dozens of third parties locked and loaded products and services to coincide with the Sept. 14 launch of NetWare 5, the directory-enabled, IP-based server operating system from Novell Inc. Scores of Java developers hitched their wagons to the NetWare 5 train, said Carleton Watkins, director of DeveloperNet labs for Novell, based here. DeveloperNet labs is Novell's software development support arm. At least 100 of the, thus far, 480 Novell approved applications for NetWare 5 are Java applications, according to the developer. "We weren't sure we were going to get the Java vendors, but those guys just came out of the woodwork," Watkins said. In addition, hundreds of database, antivirus, network management, security and Web-based applications are ready to run on NetWare 5, a Novell spokesman said. They include products from Attachmate, Corel Corp., Great Plains Software Inc., Intuit Inc., Netscape Communications Corp., Network Associates Inc., Oracle Corp. and Unisys Corp. Support also has proven strong on the hardware side. Major hardware companies whose servers have been tested and approved for NetWare 5 include IBM Corp., Dell Computer Corp., Hewlett-Packard Co., Compaq Computer Corp., Gateway Inc., Intel Corp., NEC Technologies Inc. and Siemens Nixdorf. As of the ship date, 150 certified servers were ready to market-"more than we had for NetWare 4," Watkins said. "This has been absolutely the best year ever," he said. Major software vendors included Computer Associates International Inc., Seagate Software and Tivoli Systems Inc. One step driving increased development was a wide beta program, Novell said. "We probably gave out more betas than our developers could handle," Watkins said. "We really flooded the market." Novell will continue to emphasize Novell Directory Services (NDS) in future releases, said Eric Schmidt, Novell chief executive. "What's more important is what applications are using the directories, than the directory services themselves. The directory then becomes a part of the infrastructure," he said. Data-protection supplier Vinca Corp., Provo, unveiled a new version of StandbyServer for NetWare 5 which is slated to ship next quarter, a spokesman said. Also, NovaStar Corp., Simi Valley, Calif., shipped a suite of five network backup software designed for NetWare. techweb.com