Nov 12, 2003

Key, Novell and IBM bringing Novell’s new Novell Linux Services
to the Novell base.
Key, Novell and IBM bringing Novell’s new Novell Linux Services to the Novell base.

Highlights

• Key will provide training and support to Novell Business Partners.
• Novell Business Partners to implement NetWare7 or Novell Linux Services.
• Key is a Premier IBM Business Partner and systems integrator providing migration services between platformsand operating systems.

Woodland Hills, CA – November 12, 2003 -- Key Information Systems, a systems integration company and Premier IBM® Business Partner, represents IBM products in the Novell and IBM Linux Solutions Conference, a 40-city road show from November 5 through 11. Show events demonstrate how Novell Linux services can better manage the constant interaction of people with their business systems while significantly lowering IT costs. Novell’s new Novell Linux Services is show cased at the conference. The emergence of Novell’s Linux and open source software as central enabling technologies for enterprise solutions is also supported by Key Information Systems.

Key Information Systems is a systems integration company that specializes in platform-to-platform conversions, Internet-based applications, storage management and high-availability solutions for small and medium business (SMB) organizations.

Key will assist Novell business partners to migrate Novell users to NetWare 7 or to Novell Linux Services. “Key is a strategic provider in IBM’s Linux value-net,” noted Lief Morin, President at Key, “and our experience in migration services and Linux equips has equipped us to provide the services that Novell partners and their customers will need during the migration process.”

Novell has 5 million Netware users, many of whom are expected to attend the Novell and IBM Linux Solutions Conference.

Novell announced on November 4, 2003, that it will acquire SuSE Linux in a $210 million cash deal. At the same time, IBM announced it is making an investment of $50 million in Novell. Thus, the IBM-Novell-SuSE alliance is well funded.

SuSE, headquartered in Nuremberg, Germany, is the second largest commercial Linux distributor after Red Hat. “SuSE has been on the front lines in the effort to get Linux on the iSeries,” notes Pete Elliot, Director of Marketing at Key, “and we at Key are strong supporters of anyone who can help to make Linux a solid player on the iSeries platform.”

By the release of NetWare 7, Novell Linux Services will be functionally equivalent to NetWare 7. Novell’s customers now have a viable option to continue with solutions from a provider they have trusted for years. They can now move forward with an Open Source non-proprietary solution that also has both IBM and Key behind it.

About Key Information Systems, Inc.
Key Information Systems, Inc., (www.keyisit.com) a Premier Business Partner with IBM, is a systems integration company located at 22120 Clarendon St., Suite 100, Woodland Hills, CA 91367, USA. Founded in 1995, Key delivers affordable and scalable solutions for today's fast-paced business environment by integrating business strategies with infrastructure engineering. The company provides corporate infrastructure architecture for business continuity, storage, and e-business solutions.

Key has been designated a TotalStorage Solution Center by IBM, providing a full line of storage solutions across the total enterprise. Storage products include ESS (SHARK), SAN, NAS, FAStT, BladeCenter, iSCSI, LTO tape solutions, Tivoli, and TSRM, IBM's new storage virtualization and management products. Storage consulting and systems integration services utilize the extensive equipment at Key’s TotalStorage Solution Center located in Woodland Hills, California. For more information, please visit the company online or call 1-877-442-3249.

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