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Bus-Tech, Novell and ResQNet.com Sponsor "Building Corporate Portals" Seminars 10-City, 1/2 Day Seminar Series by Leading Technology Guru Anura Guruge

MEREDITH, N.H., July 20 -- "Building Corporate Portals -- Integrating the New with the Old" is a technical seminar series, with live workshops and online demos, targeted at Novell NetWare users. A corporate portal is a company specific equivalent of the now well-known Internet portals. A corporate portal permits company employees and the general public with authorized, secure, and controlled access to corporate information and applications. Corporate portals open the door to e-Commerce and Internet Call Centers for on-line customer support. A corporate portal will also be the single, user friendly gateway through which companies' employees, henceforth, access corporate applications, data bases, files, Web pages and e-mails.

This 10-city, 1/2 day seminar series will provide Novell NetWare users with all of the background and information they need to design, implement and maintain sophisticated and alluring corporate portals. Technologies described in-depth will include: Web publishing; user interface rejuvenation, enhancement and extension; directory services; 3270-to-HTML conversion; security and firewalls; channel-attached servers; host gateways; applet based host access, and portal management. This seminar series will be developed and presented by Mr. Anura Guruge, the well known industry analyst and author. Complimentary copies of Mr. Guruge's latest book ``Integrating TCP/IP Networks with IBM Data Centers,'' which will be available from Addison Wesley Longman in September will be given to all attendees.

``Novell is very excited about being the lead sponsor of this very topical and incisive seminar series,'' said David Holbrook, Director for Host Connectivity at Novell. ``With NetWare for SAA 4, our new Host Integration Solution suite, the feature-packed HostPublisher, Novell Directory Services and our other Web oriented products, we have all of the technologies and tools necessary for building corporate portals. This seminar series will provide NetWare users with a good, technical tutorial on how they can get a jump-start on implementing corporate portals.''

``Bus-Tech has been providing high-throughput, ultra-reliable mainframe channel attachment solutions for NetWare users since 1992,'' says Jim O'Connor, Director of Product Marketing at Bus-Tech. ``Our latest PCI-bus ESCON adapter for NetWare for SAA 4 provides the bandwidth, the high-availability and functionality required to build corporate portals that provide seamless, high-speed access to mainframe applications and data. Bus-Tech has had a long and fruitful association with Mr. Guruge, and this is the second of his seminar series that we have sponsored in the last 18 months.''

``As a market leader in graphical user interface development, enhancement and extension solutions we are highly committed to help customers develop compelling, visually appealing corporate portals,'' Says Jim Shapiro, Executive Vice President of ResQNet.com. ``We provide a range of powerful, but easy to implement user interface rejuvenation, enhancement and extension capabilities for NetWare users. Through this seminar series, Mr. Guruge will give Novell users a thorough grasp of the latest GUI development tools at their disposal.'

The inspiration and impetus for this technical, hands-on seminar series was provided by Mr. William C. McCain, the creator and developer of Novell's widely acclaimed HostPublisher product. HostPublisher, which does 3270-to-HTML conversion for Web publishing of mainframe data, as well as Java applet based terminal emulation, is acknowledged by industry experts as being the most comprehensive and feature-rich product of its kind. Bill McCain was awarded two patents for the keyboard and light-pen support features available in HostPublisher. Bill McCain has this to say about this seminar series: ``having worked on IBM connectivity solutions for the last 15 years, I am delighted to see that corporate portals, as portrayed in this seminar, will indeed become the new frontier of host access in the 21st century. HostPublisher gives Novell users an unparalleled means by which to elegantly integrate their mainframe applications and data with Web based portals. I am very happy and honored to have originated this seminar series since I know it will deliver the exact information that NetWare customers have been looking for in terms of how they can leverage their existing infrastructure when designing corporate portals.''

The schedule for this Novell, Bus-Tech and ResQNet.com sponsored seminar series is:

To register for these ``Building Corporate Portals'' seminars call (603) 279-5596, send e-mail to 'seminars@inet-guru.com' or contact Novell, Bus-Tech or ResQNet.com.

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ResQNet.com, Inc., previously known as Advanced Transition Technologies (AT2), is a New York-based software firm specializing in intelligent front-end client technology. Its core product, ResQNet, extends the reach and enhances the functionality of enterprise applications through Web-enablement and by integrating data from various server-based sources such as SQL databases. ResQNet is a 100% Pure Java applet that takes advantage of the trend toward network computing by providing on-the-fly graphical connectivity to host applications on the Internet and intranets. Its patented drag-and-drop technology allows screens to be customized quickly and easily without any scripting or programming. For more information, contact ResQNet.com at 212-482-8080 Ext. 4816, by fax at 212-482-8081 or visit the company Web site at www.resqnet.com.

Bus-Tech, Inc. is the industry's leading provider of state-of-the-art connectivity solutions for the data center. The company's powerful suite of Intranet-to-Mainframe and data movement solutions satisfy the most rugged demands of data processing professionals for high-bandwidth, high-performance connectivity. With more than 14,000 installed sites worldwide, Bus-Tech is a recognized leader in the interconnect market. Headquartered in Burlington, MA, the company is privately held with locations around the world. For more information about Bus-Tech and its products, please visit the Bus-Tech World Wide Web site at www.bustech.com, or call 800-284-3172 or 781-272-8200.

Anura Guruge is a technical analyst who specializes in all aspects of contemporary IBM networking. He has first hand, in-depth experience in SNA- Capable ionets, SNA/APPN/HPR/AnyNet, Frame Relay, Token-Ring switching, ATM and System Management. He is the founder and Chairman of the SNA-Capable i. net Forum (www.sna-inets.com). He is the author of ``Reengineering IBM Networks'', the best selling ``SNA: Theory and Practice.'' He is also the Editor of Auerbach's ``Handbook of Communications Systems Management.'' He has published over 260 articles. He can be contacted at (603) 279-5596 or guruge@cyberportal.net. Or visit www.inet-guru.com.

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