SUSE R&D Vice President Markus Rex Named General Manager of Novell's SUSE LINUX Business Unit

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Feb. 2, 2004

SUSE R&D Vice President Markus Rex Named General Manager of Novell's SUSE
LINUX Business Unit

Assumes responsibility for all Novell Linux desktop initiatives

Nuremberg, Germany - Feb 2, 2004 

Novell's SUSE LINUX business unit today announced the appointment of Markus
Rex as general manager.

Rex, previously SUSE's vice president, Research and Development, will assume
his new duties immediately. As general manager of the SUSE LINUX business
unit, reporting to Chris Stone, Novell vice chairman - Office of the CEO, Rex
will lead the development of SUSE LINUX, from the desktop to server, and will
work with other Novell business units to deliver a complete Linux solution
stack. Rex will also assume responsibility for Novell's Linux desktop
activities.

"In the past eleven years, SUSE LINUX has played a substantial role in the
development of Linux, bringing Linux to the IBM eServer family, driving the
Linux port of AMD64, and achieving the first ever security certificates for
open source -- just to name a few -- and has accumulated a globally unique
engineering know-how in the Linux sector," said Chris Stone, Novell vice
chairman - Office of the CEO. "Melding Novell's enterprise-class networking
solutions, technical support, training and consulting services with the open
source expertise of SUSE LINUX, we provide customers a solid basis for the
deployment of Linux in mission-critical scenarios."

"As a full part of Novell, we can leverage our joint know-how to deliver a
best-of-breed, full Linux solution stack, maximizing development and
marketing synergies," said Markus Rex, general manager of Novell's SUSE LINUX
business unit. "Maintaining our technological roots and combining them with
Novell's expertise and resources, we give our customers and partners a unique
set of software and services to realize the benefits of Linux."

Rex joined SUSE in February 1999 as an engineer and became SUSE's head of
development four months later. As vice president of Research and Development,
he facilitated SUSE's growth from 15 engineers in 1999 to more than 165 today
-- one of the largest open source development teams in the world. Prior to
joining SUSE, Rex worked in the department of Computer Science at the
University of Erlangen and as an IT consultant at Philips.

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with its Ximian® and SUSE® LINUX brands, Novell provides a full range of
Linux products and services for the enterprise, from the desktop to the
server. Novell's vision of one Net - a world without information boundaries -
helps customers realize the value of their information securely and
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