NOVELL COMPLETES WORDPERFECT CORPORATION MERGER, PURCHASES BORLAND'S
QUATTRO PRO SPREADSHEET BUSINESS 

Novell Becomes Leading Software Vendor Spanning Networks and Applications

Provo, UT. -- June 27, 1994 -- Novell, Inc. (NASDAQ:NOVL) and WordPerfect
Corporation today announced the completion of their merger and the
acquisition of Borland's Quattro Pro spreadsheet business bringing
together application software for words, numbers and graphics with the
systems software for pervasive computer networks. Novell is now a leading
provider of business and workgroup application software, as well as the
world's leading system software provider for networks.

"With Novell and WordPerfect technology Novell intends to lead the
industry's evolution to network applications. Applications that improve
our ability to access networked data, create easily shared information,
collaborate and communicate over the network whether from an at-home
office, on the road, or within a global corporation," said Bob
Frankenberg, president and chief executive officer of Novell. "WordPerfect
is key to Novell's drive to improve the way millions of people work, play,
buy, sell, govern and educate themselves through the use of increasingly
pervasive networks."

"Novell is an innovative software company and a catalyst for change. The
merger with WordPerfect and acquisition of Quattro Pro enables the
combined, greater Novell to broaden the scope of user and vendor partners
needs we can address with software components based on open interfaces and
standards," he added.

Novell's pooling of interest merger with WordPerfect is the largest
software acquisition in the history of the industry. The two companies'
combined 1993 revenue was $1.8 billion, making the company the third
largest software vendor after Microsoft and Computer Associates. The
WordPerfect Corporation and the Quattro Pro business from Borland have
become the WordPerfect/Novell Applications Group, a new business unit
within Novell. Ad Rietveld, formerly chief executive officer of
WordPerfect, is president of the new Novell group.

Rietveld said, "The decision to join Novell was driven by our perspective
on how the power of networks is transforming the applications industry.
Increasingly, today's applications will become network applications adding
new dimensions to their power, capabilities and ease-of-use. Joining
Novell means we'll continue to deliver the best applications to
WordPerfect users while making the evolution to network applications easy,
manageable, timely and effective."

"We join Novell creating a software powerhouse to deliver desktop, software
suite, groupware and network applications that define new capabilities for
individual computer users as well as for corporate information systems,"
Rietveld added.

Network applications leverage the power, efficiency and cost-effectiveness
of networks by taking advantage of shared network services including
global directories, storage, messaging, security and workflow management.
Networked document management is one type of networked application. An
excellent example is WordPerfect's SoftSolutions which enables users to
globally access documents wherever they reside on the network regardless
of the application that created them, the operating systems on which they
reside, or the subnetwork through which they are connected. It also
provides document management for mobile computing by automating the
synchronization of documents and updating changes made by the mobile users
when they reconnect to the network. The combined company will now be able
to simultaneously evolve both the world's most popular network - NetWare,
and networked applications such as SoftSolutions to better address the
needs of knowledge workers in small and large firms alike.

The terms of the merger agreement have not changed from the definitive
agreement signed by the companies on March 21. Novell has exchanged 59
million shares of its stock and options, valued at approximately $855
million, for the outstanding shares of WordPerfect common stock and stock
options. On a fully diluted basis, the new shares represent approximately
15 percent of Novell's shares. As part of the WordPerfect merger, Novell
also completed its purchase of the Quattro Pro spreadsheet business from
Borland for approximately $145 million.

Until its merger with Novell, WordPerfect was a private company based in
Orem, Utah. In its last fiscal year, ended December 1993, WordPerfect had
total revenue of $707 million. WordPerfect is a worldwide leader in
providing business, workgroup, consumer and electronic publishing
software. It develops business software to help people process, share and
present information across a wide variety of computer operating systems.
Among the company's key products are: business applications including
WordPerfect, the world's best-selling word processor, and WordPerfect
Presentations; workgroup applications including WordPerfect Symmetry and
WordPerfect InForms; electronic publishing software including WordPerfect
Envoy; and, consumer products including WordPerfect InfoCentral and
WordPerfect Works.

Novell, Inc. is the leading computer networking company worldwide,
developer of network services, specialized and general purpose operating
system products, standalone to network applications, and programming
tools. The networks Novell serves span from small businesses to major
enterprises to global internetworks. Novell's NetWare, UnixWare, AppWare
and WordPerfect families of products provide matched system components for
sharing information resources within multivendor network computing
environments.

Novell Inc
122 East 1700 South
Provo, UT 84606-6194
801-429-7000,  800-453-1267

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