GWAVACon presents an important opportunity for Novell and its partners to communicate updates, strategy and releases to its community. Previous GWAVACons have been held in Berlin and Munich, Germany; Sydney, Australia; Dallas, Texas; San Diego, California; and in 2009 Las Vegas, Nevada. Keynote speakers have included executives from Nokia and RIM, as well as John Dragoon, Chief Marketing Officer for Novell, Volker Smid, President of Novell EMEA, and in January of 2008 in San Diego, Ron Hovsepian, Novell CEO.

About GWAVA

GWAVA is a worldwide leader in messaging security and archiving and the largest partner of its kind to Novell(R) GroupWise and Teaming in the world. GWAVA solutions are used by over 15 million users in 60 different countries. GWAVA security and audit solutions have been field-tested and proven in many large messaging infrastructures. GWAVA has offices in the U.S., Canada, Germany, and Australia and maintains a network of hundreds of authorized partners. Information on GWAVA can be found at www.gwava.com.

About GWAVACon

GWAVACon is the conference with total access to the top engineers and experts in the world on GroupWise and GroupWise solutions. Novell employees who work at the heart of GroupWise, GroupWise gurus and GroupWise expert speakers and vendors from around the world join GWAVA to offer attendees the most up-to-date information about GroupWise. In addition to the GroupWise focus, additional tracks on Novell ZENworks and SUSE Linux are offered. It also features hands-on advanced technical training for GWAVA products such as Reload, Retain and Vertigo. GWAVACon will be held in Las Vegas January 24-26, 2010. To register for GWAVACon, go to www.gwavacon.com

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During a keynote session today at Enterprise 2.0 in San Francisco, Novell will demonstrate the technology preview of this real-time social and document collaboration platform. Novell Pulse includes interoperability with Google Wave through the federation protocol, letting Novell Pulse users communicate in real-time with users on any other Wave provider.

"Security and identity management remain top concerns for enterprise companies considering real-time, social solutions," said Caroline Dangson, Research Analyst, Enterprise Collaboration and Social Solutions at IDC. "Novell has a proven record in security and identity management, which is an important strength it brings to its new collaboration platform, Novell Pulse. Novell's interoperability with Google Wave is another interesting application of its new collaboration platform in supporting mixed IT environments and demonstrates Novell's strategy toward real-time, social sharing and collaboration."

Available in the first half of 2010, Novell Pulse helps drive enterprise productivity and innovation by making it easier to communicate digitally, generate ideas and share information. People continents apart can share and edit documents, jointly browse websites, and have a digital conversation, all in real-time. Individuals can also manage content overload by filtering for people and topics to follow as well as storing files-both native and office type-along with their related groups and conversations.

Novell Pulse leverages Novell's expertise and experience developing enterprise collaboration and communication tools, as well as industry leadership in creating strong identity and security management solutions. Available on-premises or in the cloud, Novell Pulse gives enterprises the confidence to embrace real-time collaboration technologies.

"Novell Pulse gives users a single interface for teaming with co-workers and partners in real-time, bringing together content from various enterprise and social applications," said Kent Erickson, senior vice president and general manager for Workgroup Solutions at Novell. "For the first time, enterprises can tie business controls and security together with real-time collaboration and social networking technologies to improve decision making and to work more efficiently across boundaries."

Novell Pulse Product Details

Novell Pulse is a key component in Novell's collaboration strategy and open collaboration architecture, working standalone or in concert with Novell's broader product portfolio. Key features, which draw on the best of e-mail, instant messaging, document sharing, social connections, real-time co-editing and enterprise controls, include:

- Security: Provisioning, sign-on and permissions leverage enterprise identity and access management systems, directory servers and audit tools to integrate with established processes, keep data safe and support compliance requirements.

-Real-time collaboration: Collaborative editing and document sharing enables users to get work done with other users in real-time, from co-editable online documents to the ability to share and comment on traditional office documents in real time.

- Unified inbox: A single interface allows users to see, sort and filter all their personal and professional content from various social messaging services, email, Wave, etc. all in one place.

- Enterprise social messaging: Social blog capabilities allow users to share, follow and comment on topics and ideas.

- Real-time awareness and chat : Real-time awareness allows users to know exactly when their colleagues are available via people, group and message activity monitoring.

Availability

Novell Pulse will be demonstrated on Nov. 4, 2009 during the Integrating Google Wave into the Enterprise keynote at Enterprise 2.0 in San Francisco. Demonstrations will also be available at the Novell booth #816. A select beta is scheduled for early 2010. Novell Pulse will be generally available in the first half of 2010 in a cloud deployment, and with an on-premise deployment option in a subsequent release. For more information on Novell Pulse, visit www.novell.com/pulse .

About Novell

Novell, Inc. (Nasdaq: NOVL) delivers the best engineered, most interoperable Linux* platform and a portfolio of integrated IT management software that helps customers around the world reduce cost, complexity and risk. With our infrastructure software and ecosystem of partnerships, Novell harmoniously integrates mixed IT environments, allowing people and technology to work as one.

Novell is a registered trademarks of Novell, Inc. in the United States and other countries.

*All third-party trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

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During a keynote session today at Enterprise 2.0 in San Francisco, Novell will demonstrate the technology preview of this real-time social and document collaboration platform. Novell Pulse includes interoperability with Google Wave through the federation protocol, letting Pulse users communicate in real-time with users on any other Wave provider.

"Security and identity management remain top concerns for enterprise companies considering real-time, social solutions," said Caroline Dangson, Research Analyst, Enterprise Collaboration and Social Solutions at IDC. "Novell has a proven record in security and identity management, which is an important strength it brings to its new collaboration platform, Novell Pulse. Novell's interoperability with Google Wave is another interesting application of its new collaboration platform in supporting mixed IT environments and demonstrates Novell's strategy toward real-time, social sharing and collaboration."

Available in the first half of 2010, Novell Pulse helps drive enterprise productivity and innovation by making it easier to communicate digitally, generate ideas and share information. People continents apart can share and edit documents, jointly browse websites, and have a digital conversation - all in real-time. Individuals can also manage content overload by filtering for people and topics to follow as well as storing files--both native and office type--along with their related groups and conversations.

Novell Pulse leverages Novell's expertise and experience developing enterprise collaboration and communication tools, as well as industry leadership in creating strong identity and security management solutions. Available on-premises or in the cloud, Novell Pulse gives enterprises the confidence to embrace real-time collaboration technologies.

"Novell Pulse gives users a single interface for teaming with co-workers and partners in real-time, bringing together content from various enterprise and social applications," said Kent Erickson, senior vice president and general manager for Workgroup Solutions at Novell. "For the first time, enterprises can tie business controls and security together with real-time collaboration and social networking technologies to improve decision making and to work more efficiently across boundaries."

Novell Pulse Product Details

Novell Pulse is a key component in Novell's collaboration strategy and open collaboration architecture, working standalone or in concert with Novell's broader product portfolio. Key features, which draw on the best of e-mail, instant messaging, document sharing, social connections, real-time co-editing and enterprise controls, include:

        -- Security
           Provisioning, sign-on and permissions leverage enterprise identity
           and access management systems, directory servers and audit tools to
           integrate with established processes, keep data safe and support
           compliance requirements.
        -- Real-time collaboration
           Collaborative editing and document sharing enables users to get
           work done with other users in real-time, from co-editable online
           documents to the ability to share and comment on traditional office
           documents in real time.
        -- Unified Inbox
           A single interface allows users to see, sort and filter all their
           personal and professional content from various social messaging
           services, email, Wave, etc. all in one place.
        -- Enterprise social messaging
           Social Blog allows users to share, follow and comment on topics and
           ideas.
        -- Real-time awareness and chat
           Allows users to know exactly when their colleagues are available
           via people, group and message activity monitoring.

Availability

Novell Pulse will be demonstrated on Nov. 4, 2009 during the Integrating Google Wave into the Enterprise keynote at Enterprise 2.0 in San Francisco. Demonstrations will also be available at the Novell booth #816. A select beta is scheduled for early 2010. Novell Pulse will be generally available in the first half of 2010 in a cloud deployment, and with an on-premise deployment option in a subsequent release. For more information on Novell Pulse, visit www.novell.com/pulse.

About Novell

Novell, Inc. (Nasdaq: NOVL) delivers the best engineered, most interoperable Linux* platform and a portfolio of integrated IT management software that helps customers around the world reduce cost, complexity and risk. With our infrastructure software and ecosystem of partnerships, Novell harmoniously integrates mixed IT environments, allowing people and technology to work as one. For more information, visit www.novell.com.

Novell is a registered trademarks of Novell, Inc. in the United States and other countries. *All third-party trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

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About Novell

Novell, Inc. (NASDAQ: NOVL) delivers the best engineered, most interoperable Linux platform and a portfolio of integrated IT management software that helps customers around the world reduce cost, complexity and risk. With our infrastructure software and ecosystem of partnerships, Novell harmoniously integrates mixed IT environments, allowing people and technology to work as one. For more information, visit www.novell.com.

Novell and the Novell logo are registered trademarks of Novell, Inc. in the United States and other countries. All third party marks are the property of their respective owners.

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