NOVELL ANNOUNCES TUXEDO SYSTEM FOR NETWARE 4 AND WINDOWS NT

Integration With NetWare Directory Services and New Administration System
to Greatly Expand Enterprise Options

SUMMIT, NJ -- May 30, 1995 --Novell, Inc., today announced two new
supported platforms for its market-leading TUXEDO transaction processing
monitor -- Novell NetWare 4.1 and Microsoft Windows NT. The new platforms
will provide customers with additional cost-effective, flexible options
for deployment of secure, distributed client/server applications in
enterprise environments, including seamless integration of TUXEDO for
NetWare with NetWare Directory Services (NDS). Novell also previewed new
enterprise features for its next release of TUXEDO, including a new,
graphical, workstation-based system for centralized administration of
distributed applications.

TUXEDO, running natively on NetWare, enables customers to easily and
securely access the business-critical application components they need
outside their NetWare environments, anywhere in the enterprise, while
leveraging their existing NetWare investments. The integration with NT
will provide much needed transactional capabilities to customers using NT
Server in their distributed computing solutions.

"Transaction systems, and TUXEDO in particular, are beginning to play key
roles in the development of an increasing number of applications in
Fortune 500 companies," said Jim Johnson, chairman of The Standish Group.
"Although many of these companies are implementing transaction-based
applications, more and more are using transaction systems to implement
three-tier client/server applications because of their reliability,
scalability and interoperability. Modern transaction systems, like TUXEDO,
transcend the basic transaction processing functionality by providing the
infrastructure for application component development and execution
environment."

NEW PLATFORMS FOR TUXEDO

The integration of TUXEDO with NetWare will support an array of low cost,
high performance computing solutions. Existing NetWare servers can be
configured as powerful access points to line-of-business applications. For
example, an existing NetWare server in a branch office used for personal
productivity or local database operations can now also provide a
transparent link to line-of-business applications running elsewhere in the
organization, or assume some of that processing locally.

The integration of TUXEDO with NDS makes solutions more cost effective and
easier to manage by providing a common directory for access to TUXEDO
applications and NetWare based resources. "TUXEDO provides very powerful
TP capabilities to NetWare," said Toby Corey, vice president of the
NetWare Products Division. "With TUXEDO for NetWare we are providing
customers with significant new application processing capabilities, and
the ability to access mission-critical, client-server applications," he
said.

TUXEDO for NT will provide much needed transactional and high availability
capabilities for NT applications, and access to enterprise data and
applications. TUXEDO for NT will enable NT to be used as another platform
in three-tier TUXEDO client/server installations.

TUXEDO APPLICATION MANAGEMENT PLANS

The next release of TUXEDO, available in the fourth quarter of 1995, will
contain additional functionality and several expanded features. One
feature, which expands TUXEDO's capabilities well beyond traditional
transaction monitors, is the new administration and management subsystem.
It enables an administrator to manage and monitor highly complex
distributed applications from a single graphical workstation.

Joe Menard, vice president and general manager of Novell's TUXEDO System
Division, explains, "Modern distributed transaction processing monitors do
much more than their name implies. TUXEDO's sophisticated
application-to-application communications, combined with a new
administration console, will allow an administrator to easily manage all
application components of a distributed solution."

The administration system is based on Motif and provides an easy-to-use,
graphical representation of application components, system events and
configuration data in an enterprise-wide client/server application.
Statistics can be displayed for individual machines and represented as a
single system-wide view, essentially managing the "virtual mainframe
created by TUXEDO." This enables the administrator to optimize system
usage, increases the flexibility to change installations on the fly, and
ultimately provides an easier to manage environment, helping reduce life
cycle cost of ownership. In addition to Novell's own graphical
administration system, Novell will also provide integration in subsequent
releases with popular third party management frameworks through SNMP
agents.

The TUXEDO administration system will also provide additional security with
Access Control Lists (ACLs) at the user and application service levels,
enabling administrators to permit or deny access to application components
by user or groups.

The pre-release of TUXEDO for NetWare will be available in June of 1995,
with the commercial release shipping in the fourth quarter. In July, a
pre-release of TUXEDO for NT will be available, with the commercial
release shipping in the fourth quarter, following the release on NetWare.
Both NetWare and NT will be enhancements to TUXEDO System 5, bringing the
number of platforms directly supported by Novell to 11, and increasing the
platform offerings for TUXEDO to more than 35 server environments. This
enables customers to have freedom of choice and protects their investment
in dissimilar hardware.

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