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Leading Retail Technology Publication RIS News Includes Novell in Its
Software Leaderboard 2005

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The RIS News Software Leaderboard is based on votes from senior retail
executives with significant IT responsibilities. Vendors are evaluated on
retail revenue, technology performance and value, customer satisfaction,
quality of support and service, administration and maintenance, and ease of
upgrading, installation and integration .

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quality of service and ease of installation -- and also garnered high marks
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LA CANADA, Calif. From
November 1, 2005 to December 31, 2005, the average daily visits to
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NOTE: Novell and SUSE are registered trademarks and Software for the Open
Enterprise is a trademark of Novell, Inc.

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Although broadband Internet connections are becoming more common at home,
consumers continue to do more of their online shopping from work.

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Best Web Buys first made a name for itself nine years ago with the launch of
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PriceGrabber garnered a lot of attention by being sold for hundreds of millions
of dollars, Best Web Buys has continued to build on past success and saw our
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With more than
50,000 customers in 43 countries, Novell helps customers manage, simplify,
secure and integrate their technology environments by leveraging
best -of-breed, open standards-based software.

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com) is a leading online comparison shopping service for
books and has been helping college students from more than 1,500 colleges across
the nation find the best prices for their new and used textbooks since 1997. In addition to delivering
its Linux Point of Service offering, Novell partners with a series of global
retail application vendors to deliver comprehensive solutions to retailers.

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"Shoppers seem to be gaining confidence in online
merchants' ability to ship products quickly," Loyola said.com, Powell's, Walmart. RIS News, a leading publication focused on retail
technology, has included Novell for the first time in its newly released
annual Software Leaderboard.
As a result, retailers can look to Novell with confidence to leverage open
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delivers Software for the Open Enterprise(TM). With over 20 years of
experience , more than 5,000 employees, 5,000 partners and support centers
around the world, Novell helps customers gain control over their IT operating
environment while reducing cost.

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Best Web Buys December
2005 traffic increased 100 percent over December 2004.
"2005 was a huge year for online comparison shopping," said Steve Loyola,
president and founder of Best Web Buys.206.

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Best Web Buys(TM) Reports 121% Jump in Holiday Traffic

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"Our results show that many savvy online consumers prefer comparison
shopping sites that are doing a great job by concentrating on a particular
product category instead of sites that cover many categories, but may not do a
great job on any one," Loyola explained. Novell 's
inclusion in the RIS News Leaderboard 2005 reflects growing demand in the
retail sector for the mission-critical Linux that Novell supplies.

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, Best Web Buys(TM), a leading
online price comparison shopping site, announced today that holiday traffic for
November 2005 jumped 149 percent over November 2004.com were 29 percent higher on weekdays than on weekends., Novell (Nasdaq: NOVL) has debuted
as the sole Linux distributor in a major ranking of technology suppliers for
the retail sector.

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Novell's retail customers include Circuit City, Pep Boys, Burlington Coat
Factory, Overstock.com , Boscov's and Ritz Camera.
IBM, the largest retail point-of-service hardware vendor, has selected
Novell's Linux Point of Service as the foundation for its retail Linux
platform, IBM Retail Environment for SUSE Linux (IRES).

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About Best Web Buys
Best Web Buys' five product specific sites -- Best Book Buys(R), Best Music
Buys, Best Video Buys, Best Bike Buys and Best Electronic Buys -- compare
prices, shipping and availability of more than five million titles and items at
dozens of online stores including Abebooks. The company is located at 1150 Foothill Blvd.

"Retailers live and die on system uptime, ease of use and ease of
administration," said Michael Allsop, director of retail industry marketing
for Novell. "Linux provides an ideal platform for retail point of service and
server environments because of its performance and dependability.

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More information about Novell can be found at
http://www. *Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds. All other
third-party trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

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