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Novell Selects HyperDesk's Distributed Object Management System to Access
NetWare Services and Resources
Object Oriented Interface Will Make Interoperable Network Application
Development Easier
PROVO, Utah -- January 12, 1993 -- As a catalyst to speed the development of
the next generation of networked applications, Novell today announced it has
selected HyperDesk Corporation's Distributed Object Management System
(HD-DOMS) to provide an object-based interface to services and resources
within the NetWare environment. HD-DOMS standards-compliant software will
make networked applications simpler to write as well as easier to update and
maintain, without the need for major rewrites. Networked applications based
on HD-DOMS technology will have the added advantages of being interoperable
across diverse computing environments and tightly integrated into NetWare's
powerful and distributed network services.
Novell's plans for implementing HD-DOMS technology comes at the same time the
company is announcing it owns a minority equity in HyperDesk (for details see
related business announcement). Both announcements reflect Novell's ongoing
commitment to growing the networking industry by delivering leading technology
products. The HyperDesk relationship is part of Novell's strategy to partner
with companies specializing in key technologies in order to accelerate the
availability of technology to customers.
Novell, which is licensing the HD-DOMS platform from HyperDesk and bundling it
as NetWare Loadable Modules (NLMs) with NetWare v3.x and future releases,
plans to make its core and extended NetWare services HD-DOMS-ready, providing
NetWare developers with a single, uniform object-based interface for all
client platforms. Currently, developers must use a number of different
interfaces for application development. HD-DOMS is language independent
allowing developers to access NetWare services with object and non
object-oriented languages without knowledge of the services' location or
implementation. Novell will also work with HyperDesk and the Object
Management Group (OMG) to ensure that these interfaces remain compatible with
future industry standards.
John Edwards, executive vice president of Novell's Desktop Systems Group
explains the impact that simplified access to NetWare services will have on
the development process. Says Edwards, "Application development in
heterogeneous distributed computing environments has been difficult and
time-consuming. Treating NetWare services, resources, data -- and eventually,
voice and images -- as objects that can be accessed through a uniform
interface, will speed the work. Developers will now be able to concentrate
more on adding functionality to the application and less on the mechanics of
networking. Customers will benefit from a whole new set of powerful
applications that work seamlessly in the NetWare environment."
In commenting on Novell's selection of HyperDesk as a partner, Jan Newman,
executive vice president of Novell's NetWare Systems Group said, "HyperDesk's
extensive expertise in object-based interfaces made them an attractive Novell
partner for two reasons: their demonstrated strength in serving the UNIX
customer, which will integrate well with our own UNIX strategy; and their
standards-based approach, of increasing importance to the customer, which will
further integrate the NetWare environment into the open standards arena."
HyperDesk's HD-DOMS is the first open, standard distributed object management
system based on the Object Management Group's CORBA (Common Object Request
Broker Architecture) standard for portability and interoperability. As
currently defined, HD-DOMS will support DOS, Windows, NetWare and UNIX.
"The combination of technologies from Novell and HyperDesk will bring a new
generation of capabilities to NetWare users. HD-DOMS for NetWare will bring
shared access to reusable objects, making NetWare the environment of choice
for integrating network services and resources," said Jerry Levin, vice
chairman of HyperDesk.
How the Technology Will Work
HD-DOMS is a distributed object framework used to provide interoperability,
portability and reusability of software components across a wide range of
servers, workstations and PCs in a heterogeneous distributed computing
environment. HD-DOMS for NetWare will provide an object request broker (ORB)
and repositories in the form of NetWare Loadable Modules (NLMs) for objects,
interfaces and implementations.
Client applications will log into the ORB and issue requests on object-based
resources and services, through an industry-standard interface. The ORB's
function is to transmit the request, locate the object and bind the request to
the appropriate implementation. Any resource, hardware, software or service
can be considered an "object" and since HD-DOMS is architected as a dynamic
interface, new objects are easily added at anytime. The object repositories
initially will be based on Btreive, Novell's high-performance native index
file system for data.
HyperDesk will distribute and support HD-DOMS for NetWare software development
kits (SDKs). The full SDK, expected to ship the second half of this year,
will allow NetWare developers to build any component (client or service) of a
distributed, HD-DOMs-enabled application. A client SDK for developers who
need to do client application development only will also be made available.
Using this SDK, NetWare developers will be able to: write or adapt client
applications to use a single, portable interface to request NetWare-based
services; abstract and encapsulate their own NetWare-based services using a
language-neutral capability; and design and build new object-based services.
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, UnixWare and DR DOS. 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.