Novell is now shipping BorderManager, an integrated collection of network services that allow you to centrally manage, secure, and accelerate users' access to information at the border--the point at which any two networks meet. For example, you could use BorderManager to set up a firewall between your company's network or intranet and the Internet, or you could use BorderManager to improve the performance of your company's Internet connection. You could also use BorderManager to prevent users from accessing a secure LAN on your company's network or intranet.
BorderManager, which is fully integrated with Novell Directory Services (NDS), includes the following network services:
BorderManager also includes a snap-in module for the NetWare Administrator (NWADMIN) utility, which allows you to manage all of the BorderManager network services with the NWADMIN utility. In addition, BorderManager includes a run-time version of IntranetWare, Netscape Navigator 3.01, and Microsystems CyberPatrol, which offers category-based content filtering that you can use to prevent users from accessing particular types of web pages.
You can purchase BorderManager through a Novell authorized reseller. If you purchased NetWare MultiProtocol Router 3.1 and NetWare Connect 2.0 before October 1, 1997, you can upgrade to BorderManager until December 31, 1997. Novell is offering this upgrade to BorderManager at a significantly reduced price. You can also upgrade to BorderManager if you have purchased one of the following third-party products:
For more information about BorderManager, visit Novell's web site (http://www.novell.com/bordermanager). You can also call 1-800-NETWARE or 1-801-861-5588.
Novell and Simware have announced a partnership to provide NetWare 3 customers with a free copy of Simware's REXXWARE Migration Toolkit (RMT). With RMT, you can quickly and easily upgrade one or more NetWare 3 servers to IntranetWare. RMT saves you time by automating nearly 80 percent of the upgrade process. However, you can still customize this process to meet your company's needs.
You can download the latest version of RMT free from http://www.simware.com/products/rmt/index.html. For more information about RMT, visit Simware's web site (http://www.simware.com). You can also call 1-800-267-9991 or 1-613-727-1779.
Novell has released an ActiveX software developer's kit (SDK), which you can use to write ActiveX controls that take advantage of network services such as NDS. ActiveX controls are programs that you can create using Visual Basic, PowerBuilder, Delphi, and other popular development tools. As with Java applets, you can use ActiveX controls to enhance HyperText Markup Language (HTML) documents: If you write an HTML document that calls an ActiveX control, a user's web browser automatically downloads and runs the control on the user's workstation.
For example, you could post an HTML document that contained financial information on your company's intranet site, and you could use Novell's ActiveX SDK to prevent unauthorized users from accessing the document. To do so, you would write an ActiveX control that would prompt your company's NDS tree to authenticate each user who tries to access the HTML document. If a user had not been granted the necessary rights to this HTML document, the ActiveX control would not return the document to the user's web browser.
You can download Novell's ActiveX SDK free from http://developer.novell.com/rad/sdk. For more information about this SDK and other developer solutions from Novell, visit Novell's DeveloperNet web site (http://developer.novell.com). You can also call 1-800-NETWARE or 1-801-861-5588.
Novell's technical support centers in the Americas region, the Europe/Middle East/Africa (EMEA) region, and the Asia-Pacific region recently received the prestigious International Standardization Organization (ISO) 9002 certification. The ISO 9002 certification, which was created to establish universal technical support standards, is awarded to companies that provide users with outstanding technical support services.
For more information about the ISO 9002 certification, visit ISO's web site (http://www.iso.org). For more information about Novell's technical support centers, visit Novell's Support Connection web site (http://support.novell.com). You can also call 1-800-NETWARE or 1-801-861-5588.
NetWare Connection, October 1997, p.42