Why Choose Novell?

Novell at a glance

Strong Financial Base

• Fiscal Year 2004 total revenue was $1.1 billion.
• Novell has $1.6 billion in cash and short-term investments as of Q3 2005.
• Novell has total assets of $2.7 billion as of Q3 2005.

Global Presence Novell has more than 100 offices around the world with corporate headquarters in Waltham, Mass. Regional or development offices are located in Bangalore, India; Bracknell, United Kingdom; Nuremberg, Germany; Paris, France; Provo, Utah; Sao Paulo, Brazil; Sydney, Australia; and Tokyo, Japan.

Novell Customers Novell serves customers in varied market segments that value highly interactive business solutions. Representative customers include Bank One, BlueCross BlueShield, Brasil Telecom, British Telecom, Canon Business Solutions, Cathay Pacific, British Airways CitiExpress, City of Los Angeles, Lufthansa, Michelin, Nissan, Southwest Airlines, Star Alliance, State of California, Sumitomo Bank, UK Ministry of Defence, The Washington Post and Wyeth.

Award-Winning Solutions

Codie Award for Identity-based Computing—The 2005 Codie Awards recently recognized the Novell Identity and Access Management product family as the year's Best Enterprise Security Solution.

2005 Network Magazine Innovation Award—Novell Open Enterprise Server has earned the "product breakthrough" award in the infrastructure software category. The award recognizes companies that are "packaging exactly the right capabilities into exactly the right product and selling it at the right price."

the bottom line

Health First Saves Millions of Dollars—Health First, a fully integrated healthcare delivery network, wanted to improve internal services and reduce costs. By implementing select Novell technologies—including Novell ZENworks®, SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server and Novell exteNd™—the organization centralized desktop management, created a physician portal, improved security for patient data and significantly reduced hardware and travel costs. With these solutions, Health First also avoided virus-related downtime costs estimated at $250,000 an hour.

Feedster Reduces Hardware Costs—Feedster, a rapidly growing Internet search engine and advertising network, wanted to migrate to a Linux distribution that would perform well on its AMD* Opteron* processor—but also needed a platform that would be reliable, secure and completely supported. SUSE Linux Enterprise Server from Novell gives Feedster all the advantages of open source and has helped reduce hardware costs by 60 percent.

recent announcements

Novell Acquires Immunix™, Delivers Industry's Best Application Security for Linux—With the acquisition of Immunix in May 2005, Novell began shipping Novell AppArmor, powered by Immunix. This intrusion-prevention system protects both the Linux operating system and applications from external and internal attacks, viruses and malicious applications. As a result, businesses can protect key corporate data, reduce network administration costs, and comply with government regulations.

Novell Completes Acquisition of Tally Systems, Ships Novell ZENworks Asset Management—With the acquisition of Tally Systems Corp. to expand its ZENworks systems management offering, Novell has shipped ZENworks Asset Management, a set of integrated tools that lets organizations track systems information and assets across the enterprise.