Asera
"With the proliferation of Web sites offering and selling low-cost services and good, businesses are seeking ways to protect their brand and build customer loyalty," said Asera CEO, Warren Weiss. "By leveraging iChain, based on Novell's eDirectory, we will be better able to offer corporations personalization, customization and new services, which they can use to enhance their brand on the Web."

Authorize.Net
"We see Novell taking the next logical step in the establishment of an e-business infrastructure by introducing integration points from their new iChain service to online merchant services and transaction processing," said David O. Heaps, President and CEO of Authorize.Net. "Leveraging its directory competence to provide enhanced e-commerce capabilities will ensure that Novell's e-business initiatives are successful."

Bowstreet
"Directories are pivotal for next generation e-commerce applications and we are pleased to see Novell extend the power of the directory with its iChain platform", said Tim Dempsey, Bowstreet's Chief Marketing Officer. "Novell's NDS and Bowstreet's Web Automation Factory, both support the Directory Services Markup Language (DSML), a data and business process access technology critical for doing B2B activities. Standard access to an ever-expanding range of data and business processes in directories like iChain's NDS eDirectory will propel the adoption of B2B e-commerce solutions."

BroadVision
"One of the barriers to extending ebusiness solutions between business partners lies in ensuring secure links, while dealing with an explosion in the number individuals and policies which must be managed," said Dr. Eric Golin, CTO of BroadVision, Inc. "With NDS eDirectory at its heart, Novell's iChain initiative has a solid foundation for attacking these challenges."

Business Layers
"The ability to automate the provisioning of digital resources and services is critical when creating secure eRelationships between business partners. Novell's newly announced business-to-business framework is ideal for intelligently maintaining changes across intranets, extranets, and the Internet. This framework allows us to provide truly scaleable and secure eProvisioning(tm) solutions," said Izhar Shay, Business Layers' CEO.

Compaq
"With ZENworks for Servers, Novell is delivering a powerful directory-based server management solution that perfectly compliments Compaq's Intelligent Manageability strategy," said Lee Johns, Director of Marketing for Enterprise Management at Compaq Computer Corporation. "The combination of Compaq Insight Manager with Novell's powerful group based management and administration tools enables customers to more effectively manage their server resources and place more focus on driving their business. Compaq ProLiant customers will benefit from the NDS eDirectory as a cross platform management tool for heterogeneous environments."

Entrust
"Modern organizations are faced with evolving their traditional business relationships to what are now essentially eRelationships with their partners and clients over the Web," said Bob Heard, senior vice-president, marketing and business development, Entrust Technologies Inc. (Nasdaq:ENTU). "Through Novell's iChain directory technology, we will use our market-leading solutions to help corporations worldwide streamline and bring trust to their business relationships on the Internet."

Eprise
"In today's business environment, Web content management is as much about managing people as it is about managing content. By integrating Eprise Participant Server with iChain, Eprise and Novell are offering a scalable, high performance environment for customers to unify their content management practices across all of their e-business Web sites and applications."

HAHT Software
"Over the next few years, we will see an explosion of business-to-business selling over the Internet," said Rowland Archer, CEO and President of HAHT Software. "B2B e-commerce is complex and requires deep integration with many back-office systems. The Novell Net services like iChain and HAHT's own Commerce e-Scenario suite of applications help a company leverage its existing systems for B2B e-commerce."

IBM
"One of the biggest challenges businesses face today is coming up with a transparent, cost-effective way to build, run and manage applications on the Web," said Jocelyne Attal, VP, Transformation and Integration, IBM Software. "IBM's Websphere Application Server, coupled with Novell's Net Services Software, provide NetWare users the tools they'll need to lay a robust foundation for e-Business."

iDap Ltd.
"The release of Novell iChain will add to the already broad range of scaleable products we offer to our customers to help them manage their businesses across many internal and external networks," said Doron Rosenblum, CEO of iDap Ltd. "As managing thousands of users' resources via the Internet becomes an everyday task, we feel Novell provides us with leading, secure and reliable technology solutions for our customers."

Intershop
"In creating a competitive online presence today, ebusinesses must consider not only the quality of their commerce enabling technology but also their customer value proposition," said Stephan Schambach, CEO of Intershop. "Intershop shares Novell's vision about the role of directory service in creating comprehensive ebusinesses. Our enterprise e-commerce solution, Intershop enfinity, supports Novell's Directory product and iChain, which enable customers to develop secure and manageable digital businesses applications/solutions."

Interwoven
"Novell's announcement of their Net Services strategy will bring significant benefits to customers deploying e-business sites", said Jeffrey Engelmann, vice president for product marketing and technology partnerships for Interwoven. "Combining the security and cross-platform capabilities of NDS eDirectory with the enterprise-class Web content management capabilities of Interwoven TeamSite, will allow ebusiness to scale rapidly while maintaining central control."

JetForm
"With the evolution of traditional business relationships to more electronic-based relationships over the Web, the combination of e-process and Internet Directories is extremely powerful," said Andrew Jackson, senior vice president of marketing for JetForm. "Working together, Novell's iChain and JetForm's e-process framework will more effectively drive business to business commerce - the cornerstone of e-business."

Metastorm
"iChain addresses a key obstacle to widespread availability of B2B applications," said Avi Hoffer, CEO of Metastorm. "Integration with iChain directory technology will allow our partners to provide secure and useable e-business applications using e-work and Novell technologies."

NetDocumets
"The scalability, high-availability, and security of Novell's new eDirectory enhances our secure document eServices over the Net by providing a global directory to facilitate secure document sharing for our customers, within and across corporate and portal boundaries," said Alvin Tedjamulia, Co-founder and CTO of NetDocuments.

Oblix
"Oblix's customers are looking to build secure, manageable and scalable e-business environments. Novell's iChain initiative provides the platform necessary to manage user interaction and the flow of e-commerce, " said Robert Drescher, Vice President of Marketing for Oblix, Inc. "By partnering with Novell, Oblix simplifies this e-business infrastructure with a powerful solution for managing user profiles and policies."

PeopleSoft
"Novell has a vision for Directory services in the Internet economy, and they are executing on their vision with an excellent product," said Peter Gassner, vice president and general manager of the PeopleTools technology division at PeopleSoft. "Our PeopleTools 8 Internet architecture, which shipped in December of 1999, leverages Novell's cross-platform directory and security foundation for integration across both applications and networks. This is key to enabling the virtual enterprise and providing value to our customers."

Perot Systems
"Perot Systems is pleased to join with Novell to offer a consulting practice based on managing relationships between partners, customers and suppliers," said Gary Castleberry, vice president of systems integration at Perot Systems. "With the explosion of companies using the Web and Internet for e-Business, the pace and complexity of managing the multitude of new relationships has accelerated exponentially. With Novell's iChain directory as the foundation, Perot Systems will provide a means for making sense of these new relationships to our enterprise customers."

Plumtree
"As organizations deploy portals to open their own businesses to customers and partners, one of the greatest challenges is offering privileged access to a highly diverse community of users without giving away the store," said Plumtree CEO John Kunze. "Novell's iChain provides Plumtree with powerful technology for maintaining a standards-based user directory for the extended enterprise, giving our customers the confidence to use the portal as business-to-business gateway to their most sensitive content and services."

Red Hat

"At Red Hat, we're focused on building the Internet infrastructure and providing solutions to our customers. Novell's eGuide allows us to do both efficiently since it is a Net service that helps people find and connect to each other to improve Net commerce and transactions for increased productivity," said Paul McNamara, Director of Enterprise Market Segment, Red Hat.

Systems Union

"No business can afford to ignore the opportunity that the e-business revolution presents," said Teresa Dick, Corporate Alliances Director at Systems Union. "Organizations need to ensure that their IT systems are flexible and robust enough to accommodate a web strategy - this applies right through from business applications, such as SunSystems eBusiness Edition, to their underlying architecture. Novell's iChain business-to-business framework provides organizations with a solid backbone on which to build their core e-business environments."

VeriSign
"B2B ventures are finding that in order to conduct secure high-value transactions, a high degree of trust is required," said Mary Anderson, vice president of the enterprise services group at VeriSign, Inc. "By integrating our digital certificate technology with Novell's eBusiness offerings like iChain, customers are able to authenticate, validate, and pay their trading partners through a trusted infrastructure."

Whittman-Hart
"The rapid change in the new digital economy hasn't changed one thing ---the customer is still king," said Edward Szofer, Whittman-Hart President. "Clearly, iChain demonstrates that Novell understands this. iChain's community management technology is at the heart of Whittman-Hart's new e-Commerce solution, e-Catalog. With e-Catalog, we can help companies build customer loyalty by improving their ability to quickly and efficiently deliver highly individualized products and services."

Alvaka Networks
"Novell is recognizing the importance of changes in software licensing and service delivery models resulting from the new Internet Economy," said Oli Thordarson, President of Alvaka Networks. "NET Services and iChain fully embrace the strategies and practices now employed at Alvaka Networks. We applaud this bold move!"

Cartel Systems
"With Novell as an e-Business partner, the sometimes cloudy path through the Internet has now become clear," said Anthony M. Campisi, Director of Marketing and Business Development for Cartel Systems. "Novell's iChain provides a comprehensive framework that securely integrates multiple applications in a Zero Client Environment, which places our clients firmly ahead of their competition."

Martinsson Informationssystem AB
"Novell's e-directory fills a large gap in Internet functionality. We now have a toolbox to help customers create real business-to-business partnerships over the Net without sacrificing security or efficiency," said Mats Magiste, Senior Consultant for Martinsson Informationssystem AB in Sweden. "Driven by the rapidly increasing speed of Internet, all E-business solutions will be more and more sophisticated, and thereby spread over different subsystems. This will make solutions like iChain absolutely necessary. There is no real competitor to Novell in this field, and we are prepared to help our customers to use this opportunity."

Network Resources
"We've all come to know the framework phrases of our continually connected Net world. Terms such as Business-To-Business (B2B), e-Commerce, Intranet and Extranet all part of our every day e-based systems development and strategies," said Mike Stumpo of Network Resources, a Novell Platinum Partner in Chantilly, VA. "We're now ready to add one more: iChain. Just when you thought we were building efficient distribution models via the Net, Novell redefines the true potential for businesses to cost effectively and securely extend their net-based services and products. With Novell's eDirectory technology, organizations now have a vehicle for deploying systems more rapidly while reducing IT costs."

Reliable Integration Services, Inc.
"Novell's iChain directory technology clearly demonstrates the Novell commitment to make the Internet the transport of choice for Business-to-Business commerce," said Valerie W. Perlowitz, President and CEO at Reliable Integration Services, Inc. "iChain is the first comprehensive framework that securely integrates multiple applications in a Zero Client Environment and permits our clients to offer goods and services more rapidly and at less cost than ever before."

StrataSys
"Before iChain," says Arnie Girnun, Principal of StrataSys, "a decision may have been made at a corporate level to have a web presence, but the challenge was that each corporate unit or entity would have their own web applications, causing manageability, security and support issues. iChain provides common interface for existing applications, which will realize companies significant savings and efficiencies of scale."

Strategic Network Consulting
"Novell's new iChain product is a natural extension of NDS eDirectory, which allows enterprise networking managers to better manage customers, prospects, partners, and suppliers with the same amount of ease, integrity, and reliability they have come to expect from Novell's NDS," said David J. Broeckelmann, President of Strategic Network Consulting, Inc. "iChain's 'self-service' approach to account creation makes the daunting task of administering 1000's to 1,000,000's of ID's much more practical. Centralized administration across multi-vendor platforms makes this product a killer."

Wilson, Beers & Alu
F. Gary Alu, Vice-President of Wilson, Beers & Alu says "Novell continues to put teeth behind 'Your Network...NO LIMITS'. We have gone down the rabbit hole (the Internet) and marvel at what we have seen so far. The opportunities to leverage the vast infrastructure of the Internet are out there and Novell, Inc. is providing the tools. Novell's iChain and eDirectory will enable us to form virtual Business to Business communities, establish secure eCommerce services, securely share data resources...NO LIMITS."

Wizmo
"Novell's iChain technology allows us to provide web-site, Intranet and storefront content to Wizmo.com users and to implement it for our client's web initiatives," said Jim Kopp, CEO of Wizmo. "Novell's iChain technology provides a partners, customers, employees, and vendors an invaluable communications tool to establish and maintain lasting business relationships on the Internet."