BakBone Announces Support for Novell Open Enterprise Server; BakBone Continues to Drive Enterprise-Level Support for Linux in the Data Center

Business Wire, Feb 15, 2005

BOSTON -- BakBone Software (TSX:BKB) (OTCBB:BKBOE) today announced support for Novell Inc.'s (NASDAQ:NOVL) Open Enterprise Server platform across its NetVault data protection software product line.

Combining both the NetWare and SUSE LINUX platforms, Novell Open Enterprise Server is the first product to integrate the choice and flexibility of open source software with the power and reliability of proven networking software. With comprehensive backup and recovery support for both NetWare and SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 9 available today, BakBone's commitment to Novell's Open Enterprise Server offers customers a single source for data protection across mixed storage networks that seamlessly scales to meet the demands of any size environment. In addition to backing up to a locally-attached disk drive or tape device, or across a NAS or SAN environment running SUSE LINUX, NetVault provides comprehensive disaster recovery options on Linux to ensure that data can be recovered quickly and efficiently.

"As Linux continues to make in-roads in mission-critical enterprise computing environments worldwide, we're pleased to be working with BakBone to deliver our customers secure, highly available networking and application services in an open environment," said Hal Bennett, vice president of global business development for Novell. "The combination of NetVault and Open Enterprise Server offers customers high levels of reliability and value -- bringing together the innovation of open source technology and the stability of a true enterprise class platform with high-availability data protection solutions to ensure your data is always available."

"With Open Enterprise Server, Novell is responding to customer demands for platform choice and flexibility," said Adrian Jones, senior vice president, worldwide OEMs and alliances, BakBone Software. "BakBone's support for Open Enterprise Server will enable customers to maximize its benefits and confidently deploy business critical applications on SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 9 across their complete enterprise-computing infrastructure, including enterprise class file services on NetWare -- without compromising their backup and recovery needs."

With more than seven years of support for SUSE LINUX, BakBone continues to set the market pace for Linux distribution interoperability and support, delivering the industry's broadest support for platforms and applications in heterogeneous environments. While equally supporting both UNIX(R) and Windows(R) platforms, BakBone now also gives customers an expanded Linux choice and the confidence to deploy Linux in the data center with Novell's latest Open Enterprise Server platform for high performance computing environments.

About BakBone Software, Inc.

BakBone Software is a leading international data protection solution provider that develops and distributes data backup, restore, and disaster recovery software for network storage and open-systems environments. BakBone delivers scalable solutions that address the complex demands of large enterprise environments, as well as small to medium size businesses. Founded in 2000, BakBone products are used by Fortune 1000 corporations and domestic and international government entities. Distributed through a select global network of OEM partners, resellers and solution providers, interested companies can learn more information about BakBone's products and services at www.bakbone.com or email info@bakbone.com.

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