Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell Path: gmd.de!xlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!sol.ctr.columbia.edu! news.kei.com!news.byu.edu!news.provo.novell.com!newsgate!Postmaster From: Michael_Dona...@Novell.COM (Donahue, Michael) Subject: PR-Unified UNIX Operating Syste Message-ID: <C56E433301E70370@MHS.Novell.COM> Sender: Michael_Dona...@Novell.COM Organization: Novell, Inc. Date: Wed, 22 Sep 1993 17:48:03 GMT Lines: 117 Novell Moves to Mainstream Unified UNIX Operating System Standardizing Source Code on UnixWare NetWare and UnixWare Matched as System Components for Rightsizing September 21, 1993, NEW YORK -- Novell, Inc. (NASDAQ: NOVL) today detailed moves it is taking to bring PC market economies to the UNIX system marketplace in response to rapidly changing customer needs for rightsized business computing systems. Novell intends to expand the established UNIX systems market by enabling computer users in large organizations to rely on a unified UNIX standard for integrating advanced applications and services with the desktop systems they already use. Novell is accelerating integration between the UNIX system and its NetWare network computing software. This is being done with UnixWare, Novell's own UNIX system product, but it is also being incorporated in the UNIX system source code available under license from Novell to other computer industry vendors. Current releases of UnixWare already provide for common file system and communications services that extend from the NetWare environment. Follow-on product releases in 1994, will provide common network management, common system directories, and other features to enable NetWare and Unix system offerings to be seamlessly integrated matched system software components. In a significant change from past UNIX system source code licensing practices, beginning in the fourth quarter of 1993, UNIX source code from Novell will be provided as a complete ready-to-ship product identical to Novell's UnixWare. Original equipment manufacturer partners will not be required, as they were before, to make redundant R&D investments and spend valuable engineering resources to create finished UNIX system products. Customers are driving the industry toward a fully unified UNIX system as a single open standard, based on one specification. Novell is acting as a catalyst to help bring this about, and momentum is building to reach this objective with the early September agreement between the X/Open standards group, the UNIX system community and Novell on a comprehensive specification to enable applications to be portable between UNIX-based operating systems. UnixWare, and source code from Novell for UNIX systems, will be 100 percent compatible with the X/Open standards. "Novell bought the UNIX system to lead the industry in unifying it, while increasing its openness and strengthening its value to customers through volume distribution," said Raymond J. Noorda president, chairman and chief executive officer of Novell. "Our business objective is to extend the value of the UNIX system to the tens of millions of industry standard computers shipped with Intel processors." Extending the success of the UNIX system through high-volume distribution will broaden its market foundation. Customers will benefit from increasing multi-vendor computer choices and corresponding growth in the availability of commercial applications that take advantage of the capabilities of the advanced 32-bit UNIX operating system. Novell's strategy is to provide core system software components to support rightsizing. Rightsizing is redefining the IT industry as customers optimize the cost and performance of their IT systems through multi-vendor solutions. Increasingly, customers are relying on UNIX system solutions in moving applications from larger systems to distributed network computing environments - downsizing. The UNIX system is already the primary platform for applications that run on mid-range and larger systems. In addition, they are upsizing their desktop systems by relying on NetWare for delivering system services such as security and network management traditionally maintained by larger systems. "With UnixWare alongside NetWare, Novell is at the convergence of change that is shaping the way customers re-deploy their IT systems as rightsized systems," said Kanwal S. Rekhi, executive vice president Corporate Technology and general manager UNIX Systems Group. "Customers moving from customized large systems to industry standard hardware are rapidly transforming the IT industry into a component business. Novell is delivering UnixWare, NetWare and families of associated products as matched systems components to deliver computer users the rightsizing platform of choice." Since expanding its UNIX system effort with AT&T in 1991, Novell's UnixWare and NetWare product development directions have had a common objective of responding to the customer requirement for a single network computing environment that supports multi-vendor IT solutions. NetWare and UnixWare are both open standards available to vendors at every level of the computing industry as source code, and on a product license basis. Through partnerships with other systems vendors, Novell intends to ensure the success of UnixWare on servers. In addition to Novell providing UnixWare for computers using the Intel architecture, the company will work with industry partners to make UnixWare available on market leading RISC-based processors. Novell has already taken this step with its NetWare system software which will be available to run on the Hewlett Packard PA-RISC, Sun Microsystems SPARC, and Digital Equipment Alpha processors in 1994. According to an InfoCorp study released in June 1993, more than 55 million information system users worldwide already rely on UNIX-based operating systems. UNIX systems are the primary delivery platform for applications from mid-range and larger systems. NetWare provides the primary system software for computer networks with more than 35 million users connected to NetWare network computing environments. In June 1993, Novell acquired UNIX Systems Laboratories from AT&T, and with it, ownership of UNIX system technology and the rights to the trademark UNIX. Novell, Inc. is an information system software company, developer of network services, specialized and general purpose operating system products, and application programming tools. Novell's NetWare, UnixWare and AppWare families of products provide matched system components for rightsized information systems within multi-vendor network computing environments.