Novell Open Enterprise Server

[Michael Scottaline]

On Tue, 08 Feb 2005 17:32:03 -0500, Matthew Carpenter <matt at eisgr.com> wrote:
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> Hi all,
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> Former CNI/CNE here.  Read at own risk.
> We are defining a corporate Linux distro standard for a large
> corporation.  Due to the whole "vendor support" factor, Red Hat and SuSE
> are the two finalists.  So one of the Unix guys and I headed down to a
> Novell event this am to get the scoop.
> 
> Well, sadly enough, SLES wasn't covered.  The whole focus is on OES,
> which is basically SLES with Novell Enterprise Services installed.  For
> those of you with some Novell background, aside from their (hopefully
> former) severe lack of marketing prowess, they have generally had great
> products to sell.  Let me tell you that they continue to dominate the
> innovation space.  I'm excited for them.  We just informed them that we
> will not be re-upping maintenance for our several hundred NetWare boxen.
> ~ We's becomin smrt an' grade-uppin' ta Winders fer ussen's F&P and
> directorees.
> 
> Anyway, I've been out of the Novell loop for about 4 years.  I was duly
> impressed.  Web-access for admin *and* file/print.  Also, Windows and
> Linux clients for iFolder, which allows "Briefcase-like" synchronized
> folders, and iPrint, which allows very easily installed/managed
> printing.  The demonstration was all on Novell Linux Desktop, with
> VMWare to demonstrate the OES and WinXP stuff.
> Most of what Novell offers can be (and is being) accomplished using OSS,
> but they make it easy and pretty... and are doing some pretty cool
> stuff.  One of the nicest things is that they are actually using OSS
> underneath.  Not just Linux as an OS, but iFolder (again, suporting both
> Linux and Win32) uses rsync for the underlying sync algorithm.  
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I'll look forward to checking out their presentations at LinuxWorld in
Boston, next week.  BTW...., anyone else going?????  I'm getting the
impression attendance might be down compared to previous years (which
seems to have been dwindling in NYC) since they keep offering free
tpasses right up to the last minute.
Mike

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