WESTBORO, Mass., July 27, 1992 -- Banyan Systems today announced a product
strategy to make its enterprise network services available for multiple
computing environments in addition to the company's traditional VINES
network operating system.   The first products to deliver enterprise
network services to customers with non-Banyan environments include VINES
for SCO UNIX, announced today, and a new network interoperability product
to support Novell NetWare environments which will be announced and shipped
later this year.

The company has developed this strategy for enterprise network services to
meet a fast growing customer need for solutions which will make enterprise
networks easy to use and manage regardless of the type of network in use.

"The bigger and more complex that networks become, the greater the need for
Banyan's enterprise network services," said James D. D'Arezzo, Banyan Vice
President, marketing.  "Enterprise networks represent the fastest growing
and most dynamic market segment -- about $900 million in 1992 and growing
at a rate of more than 20% per year according to projections based on
industry estimates."

BANYAN TO DELIVER NETWORK SERVICES FOR ENTERPRISE ENVIRONMENTS

Banyan has always focused on making enterprise networks easier to use and
manage.  A critical part of that focus has been the company's emphasis on
delivering enterprise-capable network services.  VINES, Banyan's flagship
product, began shipping in 1985 as the only network operating system (NOS)
with integrated enterprise network services. The suite of Banyan services
has become more powerful over the years.

To make enterprise network services available to broad segments of the
industry, Banyan will deliver them in three ways.  First, Banyan is
committed to continue to enhance and deliver VINES as the most
cost-effective enterprise networking solution in the industry.  The value
of VINES will continue to grow as the company leverages its investments in
enterprise network services.

Second, Banyan is committed to deliver enterprise network services in a
variety of open UNIX environments.  The power of VINES and its enterprise
network services, with an open UNIX server, is an optimal solution for
customers requiring the integration of PCs within the UNIX environment. 
The first of these products, VINES for SCO UNIX, was announced today as
the first deliverable resulting from a 1991 relationship between Banyan
and the Santa Cruz Operation.

Third, Banyan is extending the reach of enterprise network services so that
other network users can gain access to them.  These services are
independent of the underlying NOS.  This allows Banyan to offer enterprise
network services to customers who have installed products such as NetWare,
without forcing them to revisit their previous network decisions.  By
layering Banyan's services over the installed NOS, more users can gain
access to an enterprise network without displacing their existing
investment in software and hardware.  Novell's NetWare will be the first
non-Banyan NOS platform to receive Banyan's enterprise network services
later this year.

CUSTOMERS, DEVELOPERS AND RESELLERS VOICE ENTHUSIASM
FOR BANYAN'S ENTERPRISE NETWORK SERVICES PLANS

"Banyan's strategy to make its network services operating-system
independent should prove a powerful incentive for software developers.  By
creating new software applications that take advantage of Banyan network
services, developers can virtually guarantee that their products will meet
their customers' enterprise- wide computing requirements," said Art
Beckman, manager of information technology services, Pacific Gas &
Electric, and chairman, Network Applications Consortium.  NAC is an
independent group of large corporations committed to fostering the
development of enterprise networking software applications.

"Wordperfect sees real value in developing enterprise applications that put
Banyan's network services to work for all customers, regardless of their
choice of operating systems or network," said Dan Lunt, vice president of
marketing, WordPerfect Corporation. "We look forward to working with
Banyan to bring the power of both our technologies together for the
benefit of network users everywhere."

"Many of our large corporate clients with established enterprise-wide
networks have a clear need for the kinds of network services that Banyan
has historically provided," said Steve Bush, chief technical officer of
The Asset Group, a nationwide network integration organization based in
Houston, whose members are Banyan Premier Network Integrators.  "These
services are certainly applicable to environments other than VINES."

The term "network services" is being used with growing frequency within the
network computing industry.  Banyan defines a network service as a
software program that makes a set of resources available to other software
programs across a network.

The function of a service generally varies with the set of resources that
it is making available.  For example, a print service is responsible for
accepting and managing a stream of print jobs flowing to a shared network
printer.  Similarly, a 3270 emulation service gives other machines on the
network access to a central host environment.

There are many possible types of network services.  Among these are file
services which provide a shared file system resource to multiple
workstations, directory services which help name and locate other network
entities, and calendar services which can coordinate the personal
schedules of multiple network users.

Another important category of network service is the enterprise network
service.  Banyan defines an enterprise network service as one that can
make its resources available to a mission- critical network consisting of
many workgroups and host computer systems.

There are three key ways in which enterprise network services are different
from those available in most workgroup networking environments:

*  Enterprise network services must be designed from the start to
   be more robust, due to the mission-critical nature of
   enterprise networks and the sheer size of some enterprise
   networks.

*  Enterprise network services must be able to integrate
   heterogeneous environments, because, by their nature,
   enterprise networks consist of systems from many different
   vendors and of many different generations.

*  Enterprise network services must offer capabilities that are
   appropriate for the enterprise environment.  For example, a
   distributed directory service is vital where the population of
   network resources to be named is very large and dynamic.

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