ADVISORY/Network Appliance To Exhibit At OracleApps World.

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ADVISORY...for Mon.-Fri. (Feb. 19-23)

OracleApps World - Booth No. 530

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Network Appliance, Inc. (NASDAQ:NTAP)

What:   Network Appliance, Inc. (NASDAQ:NTAP), the leading provider of
        network-attached data access and content delivery solutions,
        will exhibit and present at the upcoming OracleApps World
        conference in New Orleans. Press and analyst interviews will
        be made available by Network Appliance at the event.

Why:    In December, Network Appliance, the leading provider of
        network-attached data access and content delivery solutions,
        announced that Oracle will deploy NetApp(R) filer core-to-edge
        solutions to support specific storage requirements. The
        announcement that Network Appliance will provide enterprise
        network storage solutions for managing the data access and
        storage requirements for a variety of Oracle(R) e-business
        needs builds upon both companies' solid history of providing
        customers with certified database environments that are highly
        available, extremely reliable, and simple to manage and
        expand. At OracleApps World, a first-of-its-kind event,
        Network Appliance will exhibit at Booth No. 530 and engineer
        Gurindar Brar will present a talk outlining the company's
        forward-looking solutions for business enterprise entitled
        "Delivering Data Availability to Database Applications and
        Users."

Dates:  February 19-23, 2001

Location: Ernest N. Morial Convention Center
          900 Convention Center Blvd.
          New Orleans, LA
          [phone]

NetApp is a registered trademark and Network Appliance is a trademark of Network Appliance, Inc. Oracle is a registered trademark of Oracle Corporation.