- Delivers strong operating margin performance
- Reiterates operating margin target for full fiscal year 2009

WALTHAM, Mass. -- Feb. 26, 2009 -- Novell, Inc. (NASDAQ: NOVL) today announced financial results for its first fiscal quarter ended January 31, 2009. For the quarter, Novell reported net revenue of $215 million. This compares to net revenue of $231 million for the first fiscal quarter of 2008. Income from operations for the first fiscal quarter of 2009 was $14 million, compared to income from operations of $8 million for the first fiscal quarter of 2008. Net income in the first fiscal quarter of 2009 was $11 million, or $0.03 per share. This compares to net income of $17 million, or $0.05 per share, for the first fiscal quarter of 2008. In the first fiscal quarter of 2009, foreign currency exchange rates negatively impacted net revenue by $3 million and favorably impacted operating expenses by $11 million and income from operations by $8 million compared to the same period last year.

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Please be advised that the Small Business Edition & BlackBerry Enterprise Server Software, QuickStart Edition v4.1 for Novell® GroupWise® promotion has ended effective February 1, 2009.

For more information on BlackBerry Enterprise Server software for Novell GroupWise, please visit the following link: http://eu.blackberry.com/eng/services/server/groupwise/

Company increases year-over-year investments in channel five-fold;
increases channel sales organization four-fold; appoints channel sales executives

WALTHAM, Mass. -- Feb. 9, 2009 – Novell today announced global
channel program enhancements and leadership appointments marking key
milestones in Novell's return to a partner-centric business model. Based
on partner feedback, the company enhanced its channel program to
increase partner profitability and simplify doing business with Novell.
The company also increased investments in sales, marketing and
enablement support for partners. The new channel leadership roles and
partner program improvements align with Novell's growth objectives in
data center, end-user computing and identity and security solutions.

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Global food distributor improves user management while reducing system
administration time and costs with Novell identity and endpoint
management solutions

WALTHAM, Mass. - Feb. 2, 2009 - Wisconsin-based Johnsonville Sausage,
the number-one national brand of brats, Italian sausage, smoked-cooked
links and fresh breakfast sausage links, has implemented Novell®
identity and endpoint management solutions to achieve a single point of
control for thousands of employee and partner digital identities and
more than 600 desktop systems. By automating identity management with
Novell solutions, Johnsonville Sausage has reduced user management time
and costs by 80 percent.

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WALTHAM, Mass. -- Feb. 3, 2009 -- Novell, Inc. (NASDAQ: NOVL) will issue a press release providing an overview of financial results for its first fiscal quarter 2009 on Thursday, February 26, 2009, at 4pm ET.

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New version of Novell's identity-driven solution for storage cuts
costs, saves time and helps ensure regulatory compliance

Waltham, Mass, January 26, 2009 - Novell today announced a new version
of its storage solution. Novell Storage Manager 2.5 automates a
comprehensive set of storage management tasks based on events,
identities and policies that reside in the directory.

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- Leveraging Managed Objects acquisition, Novell expands data center portfolio

WALTHAM, Mass. -- Jan. 20, 2009 -- Novell today announced the general availability of myCMDB(TM), the only Web-based application that taps into the power of social networking to significantly enhance enterprise configuration management database (CMDB) usability, accessibility and accuracy. Obtained through Novell’s recent acquisition of Managed Objects, myCMDB is the industry’s first product to utilize a community-based architecture, similar to social networking applications, to provide a single view of federated data center resources across any physical or virtual environment. myCMDB is the latest addition to Novell’s portfolio of solutions that enables customers to build an agile and interoperable next-generation data center using their existing IT investments.

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