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To: hui zhou who wrote (24340)	11/18/1998 10:08:00 PM
From: DJBEINO	Respond to of 42771

Novell & Cisco To Team On Common Architecture LAS VEGAS, NEVADA, U.S.A., 1998 NOV 18 (NB) -- By Sylvia Dennis, Newsbytes. While the bulk of the "hey, look-at-this!" announcements have come and gone at this year's Comdex Fall, Novell [NASDAQ:NOVL] and Cisco [NASDAQ:CSCO] are expected later today to announce a close liaison for their respective hardware and software architectures. The linkup will, Newsbytes' sources suggest, seek to make the two companies' networking technology broadly compatible and may even spawn a new era of open standards in the networking industry. The deal will come as a relief to Cisco-watchers, who have seen the company lurch from the partnership deals with Lucent Technologies and Nortel of this summer, to announcements that it was "going it alone" in the networking arena. As news of the Cisco partnership linkup's breakdown occurred in June of this year, industry experts concluded that Cisco's inability to offer global voice infrastructure reliability could well force the communications giant to join forces with an industry old guard. That old guard, as we now know, is Novell, but the linkup is a two-way deal, Newsbytes understands, with both networking firms getting a fair deal from the arrangement. For Novell, particularly, the Cisco relationship will allow the firm to wiggle its corporate nose at Microsoft, whose Windows NT operating system has been touted a true network operating system by Bill Gates and crew. Neither Novell nor Cisco are now likely to embrace Windows NT as a native supported operating system, Newsbytes notes. The architecture linkup move is interesting to industry watchers as Cisco had previously agreed to support Microsoft's active directory technology. It remains to be seen how this commitment will bear out after today's architecture announcement, Newsbytes notes.