Novell UK Ltd has a new managing director, Jeff Barnes, previously of International Software Ltd; he moves in early next month; meanwhile, Novell says that what we have been calling NetWare 3.2, due for release in the autumn, will actually be called NetWare 4.0; the company has decided that the NetWare 3.X line will continue alongside the new product, and that means that the company will have NetWare Lite, NetWare 2.X, 3.X and 4.X all on sale concurrently; while NetWare Loadable Modules designed to work for 3.X should work with 4.0, the converse will not necessarily be so – a number of new APIs in the product will mean that backward compatibility is not certain.
