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- Novell and Digital to Cooperatively Develop Enterprise-Wide Networking
- Solutions
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- Digital To Expand PATHWORKS And Integrate NetWare Services
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- BOSTON, Mass. -- NETWORLD -- February 10, 1992 -- Novell, Inc. and Digital
- Equipment Corporation today announced a strategic agreement under which the
- two companies will cooperatively develop enterprise-wide network computing
- solutions. The two companies said they were expanding their existing
- relationship to meet customer needs for increased ease-of-use and
- interoperability between their products.
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- The agreement includes an expansion of Digital's PATHWORKS corporate PC
- network operating system to integrate Novell's NetWare network services on
- VAX VMS, RISC ULTRIX and OSF/1 servers. Digital will begin delivering
- these capabilities in new PATHWORKS products during the second half of
- calendar 1992.
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- These PATHWORKS products with integrated NetWare services will give NetWare
- users access to enterprise data, applications and services via Digital's
- Network Application Support (NAS) products in local and wide-area networks.
- These enterprise-wide applications include a variety of client/server and
- group productivity software products such as database query, electronic
- mail, group conferencing, file conversion and viewing, and distributed
- transaction processing.
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- As a result of the Digital and Novell cooperative development effort,
- Digital will introduce new PATHWORKS products that enable PC users and
- system managers to access and manage file and print services on
- NetWare-based PATHWORKS for VMS, ULTRIX and OSF/1 servers and Novell
- NetWare servers in a consistent manner. By integrating NetWare services
- into PATHWORKS products, users who are already familiar with NetWare retain
- familiar ways of using networks.
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- Novell and Digital to Cooperatively Develop Networking Solutions
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- The Digital and Novell relationship has been addressing customer service
- and support needs since 1989. Digital has been providing, managing,
- installing and servicing Novell products as part of Digital's multivendor
- systems integration business. Through Novell Labs, Novell has been
- certifying Digital EtherWORKS network interface cards, DECpc systems and
- DEClaser 2000 and 3000 desktop laser printers for compatibility with the
- NetWare environment. Since 1991, Digital has been a member of Novell's
- Technical Support Alliance, which provides user service and support for
- multivendor network computing environments.
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- "We are building on our existing relationship with Digital in order to meet
- the evolving needs of the growing community of computer users who rely on
- systems products from both companies," said Jim Bills, executive vice
- president of Novell's NetWare Systems Group. "The closer integration of
- Digital and Novell products is an important aspect of our efforts to meet
- customer requirements for comprehensive network computing solutions."
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- "Our strategy is to allow customers to select the most appropriate
- technologies for building their enterprise PC networks," said John T.
- Rose, vice president of Digital's Personal Computing Systems Group. "This
- agreement is an important step in our evolution of PATHWORKS as a truly
- open network operating system. The networking world is a multivendor world
- -- that's why we have evolved PATHWORKS to offer the widest array of
- choices: choice of client, server and network. Now PATHWORKS is the
- comprehensive PC networking software that incorporates the leading NetWare
- network services as well as LAN Manager and AppleShare," said Mr. Rose.
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- Digital Equipment Corporation, headquartered in Maynard, Massachusetts, is
- the leading worldwide supplier of networked computer systems, software and
- services. Digital pioneered and leads the industry in interactive,
- distributed and multi-vendor computing. Digital and its partners deliver
- the power to use the best integrated solution - from desktop to data center
- - in open information environments.
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- Novell, Inc., (NASDAQ: NOVL) is an operating system software company, the
- developer of network services, specialized and general purpose operating
- system software products including NetWare, DR DOS, DR Multiuser DOS and
- FlexOS. Novell's NetWare network computing products manage and control the
- sharing of services, data and applications among computer workgroups,
- departmental networks and business-wide information systems.
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