Novell Industry Partners Showcase Directory Applications at BrainShare

• Over 80 Industry Partners Demonstrate Directory-enabled Products and Technologies at BrainShare
• Compaq, IBM, Intel, Lucent, Sun Executives to Keynote

 

Novell, Inc., a leading provider of Net services software, today announced that more than 80 key industry partners will be demonstrating innovative directory-enabled products and technologies next week at its annual BrainShare® conference in Salt Lake City, Utah. Additionally, executives from Compaq, IBM, Intel, Lucent and Sun Microsystems will speak at the conference, which is expected to draw over 7,000 IT professionals. The partners participating represent a directory-enabled Net economy with an estimated value of over $20 billion

"The broad support of our industry partners at BrainShare demonstrates the undeniable power of the directory," said Steve Adams, senior vice president of worldwide marketing at Novell. "More importantly our common customers' adoption of the directory and directory-enabled products indicates that using a cross-platform directory, such as NDS® eDirectory, to simplify the complexities of doing business across all networks is how things are done in the Net economy."

BrainShare Keynotes

Speaking at BrainShare 2000 will be several industry luminaries, including Novell Chairman and CEO Eric Schmidt and Compaq President and CEO Michael Capellas who will keynote Monday. The Wednesday general session features Jocelyn Attal, vice president of software, IBM; John Davies, vice president of e-Business marketing, Intel; Ashton Peery, vice president of corporate strategy and development, Lucent Technologies; and Greg Papadapolous, CTO, Sun Microsystems.

BrainShare Sponsors and Technology Lab Partners

Industry vendors and sponsors of BrainShare 2000 include a cross-section of companies who support Novell's directory-enabled view of the networked economy. Sponsors include: Allegro, Bindview Development, Brooktrout Technology, Business Layers, Caldera Systems, Checkpoint, Citrix, Compaq, Cybex Computer, Dell, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Intel, Legato Systems, Metastorm, NetPro, Oblix, OCD Network Systems, Pervasive Software, Powerquest, Protocom Development Systems, Quantex Microsystems, RSA Security, Seiko Epson, Sun Microsystems, Symantec, and Whittman-Hart.

In addition to the sponsors, industry partners demonstrating directory-enabled products in the Technology Lab at BrainShare include: ActivCard, AdRem Software, Alexander LAN, Andersen Consulting, Arrowpoint Communications, AT&T, AXENT Technologies, B2 Systems, bCard, Bell Labs, Biscom, Blue Lance, Bulletproof, Callware Technologies, Computer Associates, CSCare, Inc., Deloitte& Touche, DPT, Email Extras, Entrust, Eprise, Foundry Networks, Gadzoox, GroupLink, Intermine, Jet Form, Log-On Data, Lucent, Metastorm, Metrowerks, Mirror Image Internet, Mycroft, N2H2, NetVision, Nexal, NEXIC, ObjectSpace, Omnibond Systems, Passlogix, Patchlink.com, Peerless Systems Networking, Peoplesoft, Performing PCs, Perot Systems, Pervasive Software, PGSoft, Prosoft Engineering, Puma Technologies, RadWare, Ragula Systems, Red Hat, Stoneware, Syclo, Talarian, Tobit Software, Tucows, Two Colonials, Visual Click Software and White Pine Software. These companies represent a broad cross-section of the hundreds of directory-enabled applications available today.

About BrainShare

Now in its 16th year, BrainShare will take place March 26-31, 2000 in Salt Lake City, Utah. More than 7,000 networking professionals and industry media and analysts will be among the first to hear the latest on Novell's Net services software strategy, see new technology demonstrations and have the chance to meet and interact directly with Novell engineers and other technologists.

The theme of this year's BrainShare, Novell's premier technical conference, is "bulk up your brain." Highlights of this year's conference include end-to-end training and education, over 250 technical sessions on the latest Net services software releases, sessions discussing future directions for Novell® product lines, over 80 developer sessions and BrainShare's "Living Legends Hall" — sessions presented throughout the day by BrainShare's most popular speakers.

About Novell

Novell, Inc. (NASDAQ:NOVL), is a leading provider of Net services software that delivers services to secure and power all types of networks the Internet, intranets, and extranets; wired to wireless; corporate and public across leading operating systems. Novell's Net services software provides the foundation for one Net a single global network that supports new applications and forms of business. Net Services software gives IT organizations a way to adapt and accelerate their transformation to e-business, simplify the management and control of all networks, create a secure foundation for doing business on the Net, and help deliver a consistent and high-quality experience to end users in all locations. Worldwide channel, consulting, education and technical support programs, along with strategic alliances, combine Novell Net services software with third-party products and services to form complete Net solutions.

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