NOVELL TO SHIP PRODUCTS BASED ON DMA STANDARDS

Commits support for new Document Management Alliance

San Francisco, Calif.-- April 11, 1995 -- Novell, Inc. today demonstrated
its commitment to the new Document Management Alliance (DMA) by announcing
it will ship both network and document management products based on DMA
standards and specifications. Novell is playing an active role in DMA to
provide customers using NetWare and SoftSolutions (Novell's document
management system) with a robust networking infrastructure for
enterprise-wide document management.

The newly formed DMA, announced today at the AIIM Conference, is an
organized task force under the Association for Information and Image
Management (AIIM). The mission of DMA is to deliver industry
specifications which will provide universal interoperability among all
document management applications, services and repositories. DMA members
declared their intentions to provide the DMA specifications to other
document management vendors, developers, resellers and corporate users by
July 1995.

"The end-user community has made it clear that document management is an
area of critical importance," said Alvin Tedjamulia, vice president of
technology, Novell Applications Group. "Novell has been actively involved
in the development of the Document Enabled Networking (DEN) specification
and will continue with support the new DMA alliance. Our NetWare and
SoftSolutions customers will benefit from gains in productivity by being
able to find, capture, use and share documents over NetWare with increased
ease and speed."

DMA will define an enterprise-wide document management specification for
library services, as well as a middleware-layer specification, allowing
users to access and search for documents between SoftSolutions and other
document management systems and flat file repositories, network operating
systems, file servers, and potentially any other defined document
management service.

As a comprehensive document management system, SoftSolutions functions
across multiple platforms, operating systems and networks to meet
organizations' unique document management needs. SoftSolutions features
both document profile and full-text searching so users can quickly locate
and retrieve the information they need, even across a wide-area network.
Support of DMA specifications will allow SoftSolutions to extend its
searching capabilities to documents controlled by competitive document
management systems and other information repositories.

DMA is the result of a convergence of the DEN and Shamrock Document
Management Coalition initiatives, both of which were developing separate
document management standards. IBM Corp. and Saros Corp. introduced
Shamrock in February 1994, and Novell, Inc. and Xerox Corp. introduced DEN
in May 1994. The two groups share similar goals and together represent
over 35 member companies who have been actively involved in the
development of DEN and Shamrock.

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