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- NOVELL ANNOUNCES BROAD-BASED INDUSTRY SUPPORT FOR
- NEW NETWORK MANAGEMENT PLATFORM
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- Systems Vendors and Software Developers to Add Value to Novell's
- NetWare Management System
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- SAN JOSE, Calif. -- February 5, 1992 -- Novell, Inc., today
- announced the support of a broad range of computer manufacturers
- and software developers for its NetWare Management System. The
- open, extensible system lets users combine products from Novell and
- from third parties to create a complete management system for the
- entire network computing environment.
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- "Novell's new NetWare Management System is designed to consolidate,
- simplify and automate many of the tasks now facing the systems
- administrator," said Duane Murray, vice president and general
- manager of Novell's Network Management Products Division. "We
- welcome the participation of the leaders in our industry as they
- add their own unique value to our NetWare Management System. The
- resulting solutions will allow users to manage their distributed
- environments more efficiently, accelerating growth of the network
- computing industry."
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- Industry Leaders Support Novell's Comprehensive Management Platform
- "We are excited about the capabilities of these powerful new
- network management tools, and about working closely with Novell to
- simplify the management and control of PC networks," said Ronnie
- Ward, Compaq's director of Novell Systems. "With so many PC
- networks today using Novell's NetWare in combination with Compaq
- products, we are enthusiastic about the many opportunities to meet
- customer needs for network management that Novell and Compaq,
- working together, can provide."
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- "The Novell NetWare Management System platform addresses a
- long-standing need among our customers to combine managing hubs,
- servers and other network devices from one, easy-to-use integrated
- standard management environment," said Bill Lanfri, vice president
- of marketing at SynOptics Communications, Inc. "As part of our
- commitment to the expanding NetWare user base and our own open
- platform strategy, SynOptics intends to take advantage of Novell's
- services and tools to integrate our hub management applications,
- such as Expanded View, into the NetWare Management System platform.
- With our applications running on the NetWare Management System, our
- customers will be able to take advantage of the power of SynOptics'
- LAN management technology without leaving the NetWare environment."
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- NetWare Management System Software Development Kits Key for
- third-party developers are NetWare Management Systems software
- development kits (SDKs) for both Windows and OS/2 environments.
- These SDKs consist of published application programming interfaces
- (APIs) that specify how to link developer products to the interface
- of Novell's NetWare Management System. The SDKs, priced at US$4995,
- will be available in April, 1992. Developers can obtain further
- information by calling Novell's Network Management Products
- Division at 408-473-8333.
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- The NetWare Management Toolkit, which allows NLM developers to
- instrument their NLMs to work within the NetWare Management System
- using either SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol) or Novell's
- NetWare Management Agent, is currently available for US$4995.
- Interested developers may call Novell Developer Relations at
- 1-800-REDWORD (733-9673).
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- Pricing applies in the United States and Canada only. For pricing
- outside the United States and Canada, customers should contact
- their local Novell Authorized reseller.
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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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