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Novell and Digital to Cooperatively Develop Enterprise-Wide Networking
Solutions
Digital To Expand PATHWORKS And Integrate NetWare Services
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.
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.
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.
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.
Novell and Digital to Cooperatively Develop Networking Solutions
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.
"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."
"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.
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.
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.