JNI Fibre Channel HBAs Receive Certification for Latest Versions of Microsoft Windows NT/2000 and Novell NetWare; Also Pass Solaris 8 Tests

Business Wire, June 8, 2000

Business/High-Tech Editors

SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 8, 2000

Receive `Designed for Microsoft Windows 2000'

and `Novell Yes' Certification

JNI(R) Corporation (Nasdaq:JNIC), the fastest growing and No. 2 Fibre Channel host bus adapter company in 1999(1), today announced its Emerald(TM)-based FibreStar(TM) host bus adapters (HBAs) have passed three important compatibility tests for the latest released versions of Microsoft(R) Windows NT(R) and Windows 2000(R), Novell(R) NetWare(R) and Sun Microsystems(R) Solaris(R) operating systems.

JNI Emerald-based PCI Fibre Channel host bus adapters and the software drivers for the respective operating systems have passed three critical tests on the most popular operating systems used by Fibre Channel-based products in Storage Area Networks (SANs) today:

-- Microsoft has tested and certified JNI's FCE-3210 HBA has

passed all compliance testing for Windows NT and Windows

2000, and has received Microsoft's "Designed for Microsoft

Windows NT Logo" certification. Because of the similarity of

the Emerald-based design and drivers, the FCE-6410,

FCE2-6410 and FCE-6412 are also expected to pass Microsoft

testing and certification;

-- Novell has certified JNI's Emerald-based HBAs for Novell

NetWare 5.1 and has given these Emerald-based HBAs the

"Novell Yes(R)" designation for its popular network

operating system;

-- The Emerald-based HBAs have passed a battery of third-party

test suites developed by EMC, Unisys and JNI's Systems

Integration Lab to test the Emerald-based FibreStar HBAs

compatibility on platforms running Sun Microsystems latest

operating system, Solaris 8.

"We perform comprehensive OS testing on all of our products," said Marwan Zeineddine, director of JNI's Systems Integration Lab. "Rigorous testing of the latest operating systems assures JNI's reputation for manufacturing high quality Fibre Channel products is consistent across all seven operating systems we support.

"In addition, compliance testing with the latest operating systems means we are more likely to maintain a high level of Fibre Channel compatibility across nearly all platforms, servers, storage devices and interconnect devices such as switches, hubs and routers."

The operating systems tested are the most current versions released by the respective companies. JNI products had already passed certification or compliance testing for earlier versions of the operating systems, including Microsoft Windows NT 4.0, Novell NetWare 4.2 and 5, and Solaris 2.5, 2.6, and 7.

JNI has released or announced the release of software drivers for several other operating systems, including Apple Computer Mac OS and Red Hat Linux. JNI announced development of software drivers for Hewlett-Packard HP-UX and IBM AIX operating systems in April. These are currently in beta review and development.

The operating system drivers for JNI's FibreStar HBAs are part of two integrated software driver platforms: the PC DriverSuite(TM) and the Unix DriverSuite. Both DriverSuites run on JNI's Emerald-based PCI Fibre Channel HBAs as well as JNI's market-leading SBus HBAs.

"With our Unix DriverSuite and PC Server DriverSuite, JNI can serve nearly all of the Fibre Channel-based SAN market - a greater coverage than any other HBA vendor," Zeineddine said. "Based on independent research, no other HBA vendor can address more than 60% of the Unix market. JNI continues to offer the broadest compatibility across multiple computing platforms of any HBA vendor."

All JNI Emerald-based FibreStar HBAs operate under multiple operating systems in all three Fibre Channel topologies - switched fabric, arbitrated loop and point-to-point. The result is that JNI's drivers significantly reduce the variety of adapters used in heterogeneous environments, simplify their installation and ensure complete interoperability between different sets of platforms and servers.

The latest JNI drivers passing certification or compliance testing include the FCE-3210, FCE-6410, FCE2-6410 and FCE2-6412. Please check with a JNI representative to confirm specific board version compatibility or availability of beta drivers to qualified reviewers at 858-535-3121 or at www.jni.com.

About JNI Corporation

JNI Corporation is the fastest-growing Fibre Channel host bus adapter company and the No. 2 manufacturer of Fibre Channel HBAs (non-captive) in revenue in 1999 according to IDC (3/00). JNI offers a broad line of HBAs, ASICs and software for storage area networks (SANs). JNI's PCI products operate on Solaris, Windows 2000, Windows NT, Novell, Linux and MacOS systems. JNI's SBus products run on Solaris. Customers include Amdahl, Avid, Chaparral, Compaq StorageWorks, Consan, EMC, Eurologic, Hewlett-Packard, Hitachi Data Systems, IBM, LSI Logic, McData, MTI, StorageTek and Sun Microsystems. Company headquarters are in San Diego, with offices throughout the U.S. and Munchen, Germany. www.jni.com.

JNI - First in Fibre Channel(TM)

Forward Looking Statements

With the exception of historical information, the statements set forth above include forward-looking statements that involve risk and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those in the forward-looking statements. These risks include the rapidly changing technology in the company's markets, the evolving industry standards and frequent introductions of new products and enhancements; the fact that the Fibre Channel market is at an early stage of development; the company's reliance on certain contract manufacturers, OEMs, distributors and key customers and the other risks discussed in the company's Annual Report on Form 10-K and other reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission.