NOVELL PARTNERS WITH SMITHSONIAN MUSEUM AND COMPUTERWORLD TO PUT INNOVATION
AWARDS ON THE INTERNET

World Wide Web site showcase technology's impact on society over past seven
years

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- JUNE 5, 1995 -- Novell, Inc., in celebration of its
sponsorship of the Computerworld Smithsonian Awards, today announced its
underwriting of the Novell Computerworld Smithsonian Innovation Network, a
new interactive site on the Internet's World Wide Web. The goal of the
network is to make the thousands of documents and landmark case studies
collected by the Computerworld Smithsonian Awards Program since its
inception in 1989 available to the widest possible audience of innovators,
influencers, users and students.

This document archive, previously only available at the National Museum of
American History in Washington, D.C., will now be accessible in electronic
form to millions of Internet users worldwide. This initiative helps
accelerate Novell's pervasive computing vision of connecting people with
people and the information they need anytime, anyplace. As the worldwide
leader in network software, Novell is the natural choice for partnering
with the Smithsonian and Computerworld in putting this exhibit online.

Novell and its partners plan to use the network to provide an online
communication vehicle for technology innovators, students, scholars and
business people to encourage new innovation, enhance future collaboration
and provide a context for how information technology is changing our
society. Novell will work over the next three years to build and maintain
The Innovation Network using Novell's market leading tools and system
software to create and operate the Web site. The information on The
Innovation Network is designed to chart the flow of IT information over
time, organized to facilitate research and categorized by vertical
industry and type of technology.

"We are very pleased to partner with the Smithsonian Museum and
Computerworld in maintaining a permanent record of major innovations in
information technology," said Christine Hughes, senior vice president of
marketing for Novell, Inc. "Novell products and services play a key role
in the global acceleration of information technology innovation and set
new standards for global communication over the Internet. We believe The
Innovation Network will provide a vehicle so that future generations may
better understand the evolution of technology's role in our society."

The Innovation Network will be released in a three-phased roll out. Phase
I, launched today, will focus on placing all the core award nominations
and Leadership Awards from the 1995 program online as well as placing
current and background information on the awards program and related
events online. Phase II, scheduled for release on September 1, 1995 will
add new information about the Computerworld Smithsonian Awards program
online, enhance the information from Phase I by including video,
photographs and more complete case study descriptions, and add information
about all past Leadership Award winners. Starting January 1, 1996, Phase
III will focus on using the Web site as a data repository and as a method
for informing and communicating with nominees.

In addition to developing the World Wide Web site, Novell will also create
and continually update a "living archive" of technology innovation. Novell
will also provide hypertext links between the Innovation Network and the
companies represented on the Computerworld Smithsonian Chairmen's
Committee, the group that submits candidates for each year's awards.
Throughout the three-year project, additional assets from the Smithsonian
archives will be added to the Innovation Network.

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