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                                              Digital Equipment Corporation
                                          Maynard, Massachusetts 01754-2571
Editorial contact:

Don Bradley
Digital Equipment Corporation
(508) 496-9506
	or
Barbara Woolf
Novell, Inc.
(800) 453-1267, Ext. 5853


            DIGITAL EQUIPMENT CORPORATION AND NOVELL INC.
                  SIGN WORLDWIDE TRAINING AGREEMENT


        ...Digital's Authorized Training Centers join Novell
           Authorized Education Center to expand Novell's
                    worldwide training network...


MAYNARD, Mass. -- January 11, 1993 -- Digital Equipment Corporation 
and Novell, Inc. today announced they have signed an agreement that 
will enable Digital Equipment Corporation's worldwide learning 
centers to become Novell Authorized Education Centers(sm) (NAECs) 
and Digital instructors to become Certified NetWare Instructors.  

     The agreement further extends Digital's worldwide commitment to 
multivendor education for leading information technology products by 
adding certified NetWare training capabilities to Digital's growing 
line of course offerings.  

     "This strategic relationship with Digital is intended to 
address our customers' increasing needs for multivendor education," 
said Carolyn G. Rose, Novell's vice president of education.  "Our 
objective is to broaden the availability of Novell's education to 
our customers.  Licensing Digital training centers as NAECs, moves 
us toward our goal of increasing NetWare literacy worldwide."

     With the addition of Novell to Digital's Open Learning Network, 
Digital's industry leadership in multivendor educational 
capabilities is expanded further.  Other members of the expanding 
Open Learning Network include Santa Cruz Operations, Inc.(SCO) and 
Microsoft Corporation.  Digital is integrating different product 
content from these and other firms to form comprehensive courses to 
help customers make better, more efficient use of their multivendor 
computing environments.

     "Our customers have been asking Digital to help them make the 
best use of their multivendor environments including leading 
products such as NetWare," said Bob Johnson, Digital Learning 
Services Marketing Manager.  "By providing Novell's educational 
offerings with our open network of classrooms, computer-based 
training and video-based training, Digital can now address this 
need."

     Digital offers multivendor education in a variety of formats 
including seminars, lecture/lab and on-site courses, computer-based, 
video-based and multimedia.  Last year, Digital trained over 300,000 
students in 18 languages at 137 Digital networked learning centers 
around the world.

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

     Digital Equipment Corporation, headquartered in Maynard, 
Massachusetts is the leading worldwide supplier of networked 
computer systems, software, and services.  Digital pioneered and 
leads the industry in interactive, distributed and multivendor 
computing.  Digital and its business partners deliver the power to 
use the best integrated solutions - from desktop to data center - 
in open information environments.
                                ####

Note to Editors:  Novell and NetWare are registered trademarks of 
                  Novell, Inc.

     		  SCO is a trademark of Santa Cruz Operations, Inc.

     		  Microsoft is a registered trademark of Microsoft 
                  Corporation.

CORP/93/943
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