IBM Corp and Novell Inc have renegotiated their February 1991 agreement to expand areas of co-operation and speed the release of jointly developed technology, PC Week reports. After several months of discussions, the two companies last month redesigned their base agreement, updating and streamlining their product licensing, distribution and support efforts, the paper says. They have also added about six new development projects, said to be mainly in the areas of distributed computing and systems management, to the original 15 development initiatives to integrate the NetWare local network operating system with IBM’s desktop, local network and mainframe environments. Those initiatives have since inflated to 35, the paper notes. Among other projects, the two companies are said to be working on the remote configuration, installation and distribution of NetWare from the mainframe, better manipulation of NetWare from IBM’s NetView network management system, and the provision of NetWare support for the IBM Advanced Peer-to-Peer Networking system.
