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Novell Selects Hyperdesk's Distributed Object Management System to
Access NetWare Services and Resources
Object Oriented Interface Will Make Interoperable Network
Application Development Easier

PROVO, Utah -- January 12, 1993 -- As a catalyst to speed the
development of the next generation of networked applications, Novell
today announced it has selected HyperDesk Corporation's  Distributed
Object Management System (HD-DOMS) to provide an object-based
interface to services and resources within the NetWare environment.
HD-DOMS standards-compliant software will make networked applications
simpler to write as well as easier to update and maintain, without
the need for major rewrites.  Networked  applications based on
HD-DOMS technology will have the added advantages of being
interoperable across diverse computing environments and tightly
integrated into NetWare's powerful and distributed network services.

Novell's plans for implementing HD-DOMS technology  comes at the same
time the company is announcing it owns a minority equity in HyperDesk
(for details see related business announcement).  Both announcements
reflect Novell's ongoing commitment to growing the networking
industry by delivering leading technology products.  The HyperDesk
relationship is part of Novell's  strategy to partner with companies
specializing in key technologies  in order to accelerate the
availability of technology to customers.

Novell, which is licensing the HD-DOMS platform from HyperDesk and
bundling it as NetWare Loadable Modules (NLMs) with NetWare v3.x and
future releases,  plans to make its core and extended NetWare
services HD-DOMS-ready, providing NetWare developers with a single,
uniform object-based interface for all client platforms.  Currently,
developers must use a number of different interfaces for application
development. HD-DOMS is language independent allowing developers to
access NetWare services with object and non object-oriented languages
without knowledge of the services'  location or implementation.
Novell will also work with HyperDesk and the Object Management Group
(OMG) to ensure that these interfaces remain compatible with future
industry standards.

John Edwards, executive vice president of Novell's Desktop Systems
Group explains the impact that simplified access to NetWare services
will have on the development process.  Says Edwards, "Application
development in heterogeneous distributed computing environments has
been difficult and time-consuming.  Treating NetWare services,
resources, data -- and eventually, voice and images -- as objects
that can be accessed through a uniform interface, will speed the work.
Developers will now be able to concentrate more on adding
functionality to the application and less on the mechanics of
networking.  Customers will benefit from a whole new set of powerful
applications that work seamlessly in the NetWare environment."

In commenting on Novell's selection of HyperDesk as a partner,
Jan Newman, executive vice president of Novell's NetWare Systems
Group said, "HyperDesk's extensive expertise in object-based
interfaces made them an attractive Novell partner for two reasons:
their demonstrated strength in serving the UNIX customer, which
will  integrate well with our own UNIX strategy; and their
standards-based approach, of increasing importance to the customer,
which will further integrate the NetWare environment into the open
standards arena."

HyperDesk's HD-DOMS is the first open, standard distributed object
management system based on the Object Management Group's  CORBA
(Common Object Request Broker Architecture) standard for
portability and interoperability.   As currently defined, HD-DOMS
will support DOS, Windows, NetWare and UNIX.

"The combination of technologies from Novell and HyperDesk will
bring a new generation of capabilities to NetWare users.  HD-DOMS
for NetWare will bring shared access to reusable objects, making
NetWare the environment of choice for integrating network services
and resources," said Jerry Levin, vice chairman of HyperDesk.

How the Technology Will Work

HD-DOMS is a distributed object framework used to provide
interoperability, portability and reusability of software
components across a wide range of servers, workstations and PCs
in a heterogeneous distributed computing environment.  HD-DOMS
for NetWare will provide an object request broker (ORB) and
repositories in the form of NetWare Loadable Modules (NLMs) for
objects, interfaces and implementations.

Client applications will log into the ORB and issue requests on
object-based resources and services, through an industry-standard
interface.  The ORB's function is to transmit the request, locate
the object and bind the request to the appropriate implementation.
Any resource, hardware, software or service can be considered an
"object"  and since HD-DOMS is architected as a dynamic interface,
new objects are easily added at anytime.  The object repositories
initially will be based on Btreive, Novell's high-performance native
index file system for data.

HyperDesk will distribute and support HD-DOMS for NetWare software
development kits (SDKs).  The full SDK, expected to ship the second
half of this year, will allow NetWare developers to build any
component (client or service) of a distributed, HD-DOMs-enabled
application.   A client SDK for developers who need to do client
application development only will also be made available.

Using this SDK,  NetWare developers will be able to: write or adapt
client applications to use a single, portable interface to request
NetWare-based services;  abstract and encapsulate their own
NetWare-based services using a language-neutral capability; and
design and build new object-based services.

Novell, Inc. (NASDAQ: NOVL) is an operating system software company,
the developer of network services, specialized and general purpose
operating system software products including NetWare, UnixWare and
DR DOS.  Novell's NetWare network computing products manage and
control the sharing of services, data and applications among
computer workgroups, departmental networks and business-wide
information systems.

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