Novell Inc is now close to Vinca Corp in more ways than one, yesterday agreeing to resell its Orem, Utah neighbor’s StandbyServer backup software for use with NetWare and IntranetWare. Novell says it will continue to sell its existing NetWare SFT III auto-recovery software on NetWare 4.11. Vinca’s technology, which provides disk mirroring and application failover is already being used by the likes of Tandem Computers Inc for low-end clustering because it doesn’t require the use of external disks or mass storage connections. Novell wouldn’t say how it will work with Vinca in future like it said it will, but doesn’t rule out the Vinca work turning up in its own Orion clustering technology somewhere down the line. Michael Bryant, director of marketing for Novell clustering solutions said Orion, Novell’s 16-way Wolfpack-killer will ship as NetWare Cluster Server by year-end following a summer beta program, enabling Novell services to be shared across nodes. Bryant said it was too early to speculate what might show up in Orion II due in 1999, but our source have already indicated the company will add Java and internet clustering and automatic parallelization of applications. Novell envisages clustering a couple of hundred or more 32-way systems by 2000 (CI No 3,328). Novell is of course engaged in a lawsuit with former employees who went off to form Wolf Mountain Group (now Timpanogas Research Group) to productize a clustering technology for Windows NT.
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