07 Jan 2000
Novell will ship its long-awaited NetWare 5.1 network operating system, aimed at e-business users, later this month.
The software - codenamed Cobra - will work as a web-server as well as offering file and print networking functions.
NetWare 5.1 will natively support HTTP, allowing support for Microsoft Office 2000's file-sharing web folders. It also includes NetWare Management Portal, a browser-based administrative and monitoring application.
UK pricing for a server and five-user licence is around £1,075 and includes IBM WebSphere 3.0 Standard Edition, WebSphere Studio 3.0 Entry Edition and a five-user version of Oracle's database.
Brian Green, product marketing manager at Novell UK, said that these features would help Novell increase its market share this year. According to IDC figures, Novell fought back against Microsoft in the operating system market last year, raising its market-share from 21 to 22 per cent.
Analyst Clive Longbottom, of Strategy Partners, said that NetWare 5.1was much faster than Windows NT/2000 at running Oracle database applications.
"Users that are not yet on NetWare are unlikely to move across," he said.
"But Novell has stopped the NetWare rot."
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