Novell, Inc. Selects And Sponsors Linux Professional Institute's Certification Exams For Its Novell Certified Linux Engineer Designation; Novell Becomes LPI's Latest Gold Sponsor.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers TORONTO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 22, 2003 Novell, Inc. (Nasdaq: NOVL NOVL Novell, Inc. (stock abbreviation, AMEX) ) in its push to create a more direct path to its open source initiatives, has selected the Linux Professional Institute's (LPI (Lines Per Inch) The number of lines printed in a vertical inch. (language) LPI - A PL/I interpreter for IBM PCs and workstations. ftp://ftp.wustl.edu/mirrors/msdos/pli/runpli1a.arc. E-mail: <rcg@lpi.liant.com>. ), (www.lpi.org) professional certification program as a step towards its own Novell Certified Linux Engineer (Novell CLE Cle total elimination clearance. ). "For a prestigious organization like Novell to sponsor the community and endorse our program clearly validates our vendor-neutral position and demonstrates the value we bring as a foundation for other certification programs," says LPI's president Evan Leibovitch. "As a company who has pioneered IT certification, we welcome their initiatives into the open source community and we are look forward to working with their team to ensure success of its CLE program." "Our Novell CLE program is designed to test and enhance the knowledge base of our IT professionals related specifically to Novell Services for Linux," adds Aaron Osmond, Managing Director, Novell Training Services. "We are recommending the LPI certification program en route to our Novell CLE designation. We recognized LPI's market credibility and the value the organization brings to our program. We didn't want to unnecessarily reinvent the wheel." "Expressing its commitment to LPI and the open source community to achieve collective success, Novell has also joined forces with LPI to become our latest Gold Sponsor," says Leibovitch "This sponsorship affords Novell the added strengths of working with a successful, active Linux professional community as it continues their own Linux development." LPI exams are now available at Novell's Utah test centers as part of the Novell CLE certification program. LPI's mandate is to design and deliver a certification program from within the Linux community, using both volunteer and professional resources. It has been ranked number one on the list of certifications expected to rise the 'fastest in importance' according to the 2002 CRN CRN Computer Reseller News CRN Crown CRN Council for Responsible Nutrition CRN Crane CRN Community Recycling Network CRN Course Reference Number CRN Center for Responsible Nanotechnology CRN Cornish (SIL code, UK) Certification study. LPI has also been selected as the winner, for the second consecutive year, of the Linux Journal's annual Editors' Choice Awards in the Training and Certification category. LPI has delivered over 27,000 Level One and Level Two certification exams globally since the program's inception in just over two years. About Linux Professional Institute The Linux Professional Institute (LPI) develops professional certification for the Linux operating system independent of software vendors or training providers. Established as an international non-profit organization in 1999 by the Linux community, LPI develops accessible, internationally-recognized certification programs which have earned the respect of vendors, employers and administrators. LPI's activities involve hundreds of volunteers and professionals throughout the world in many different capacities, and the group encourages active public involvement through mailing lists and its website at www.lpi.org. LPI's multi-level program of exams is administered globally through Pearson VUE and Prometric testing centers. LPI's major financial sponsors are Platinum Sponsors Caldera caldera: see crater. caldera Large, bowl-shaped volcanic depression that forms when the top of a volcanic cone collapses into the space left after magma is ejected during a violent volcanic eruption. The term is Spanish for “caldron. International (NASDAQ:CALD CALD chronic active liver disease. ), IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :IBM), Linuxcare, Maxspeed, SGI (SGI, Sunnyvale, CA, www.sgi.com) A manufacturer of workstations and servers, founded in 1982 by Jim Clark. The company was founded as Silicon Graphics, Inc., but changed to its acronym in 1999. (NYSE:SGI), SuSE Linux AG and TurboLinux as well as Gold Sponsors Novell, Inc. (Nasdaq: NOVL), Hewlett-Packard (NYSE:HWP HWP Height (and) Weight Proportionate HWP Half-Wave Plate HWP Highway Patrol HWP Height Weight Proportional HWP Hewlett-Packard Corporation (stock symbol) HWP Hydrolyzed Whey Peptides ) and Wave Technologies. About Novell Novell, Inc. (Nasdaq: NOVL) is a leading provider of information solutions that deliver secure identity management (Novell Nsure), Web application development (Novell exteNd) and cross-platform networking services (Novell Nterprise(TM)), all supported by strategic consulting and professional services (Novell NgageSM). Novell's vision of one Net - a world without information boundaries - helps customers realize the value of their information securely and economically. For more information, call Novell's Customer Response Center at (888) 321-4CRC (Cyclical Redundancy Checking) An error checking technique used to ensure the accuracy of transmitting digital data. The transmitted messages are divided into predetermined lengths which, used as dividends, are divided by a fixed divisor. (4272) or visit http://www.novell.com. Press should visit http://www.novell.com/pressroom. Novell, DirXML and iChain are registered trademarks, eDirectory, exteNd, Nsure and Nterprise are trademarks, and Ngage is a service mark of Novell, Inc. in the United States and other countries. (a)All third-party trademarks are the property of their respective owners. |
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