Apricot Computer Systems Division has appointed the Novell distributor Skytech Ltd as a value added distributor for its VX FTserver, Qi and XEN-S server and personal workstation series: Skytech distributes Novell’s NetWare and will supply this with Apricot hardware; the agreement comes after Novell and Compaq Computer Corp announced plans to develop fault-tolerant capabilities for local area networks using Compaq’s multi-processing technology (CI No 1,360), and suggestions that Microsoft’s new LAN Manager 2 kits, developed by Compaq, don’t have any multi-processing capabilities.