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Earlier today we announced that we had entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Managed Objects, a market leader in Business Service Management (BSM) solutions.
This acquisition, like our acquisition of PlateSpin earlier this year, is yet another piece in our commitment to provide the best and most interoperable data center management solutions. We already had a very strong position in the data center with our cross platfrom management, virtualization and workload products. The Managed Objects products will complement and extend our data center value with a portfolio of flexible modeling, analytic and visualization technologies. The net result will be better visibility, for both IT and business managers, into how information systems deliver business services allowing users to understand and respond to issues in a business context in real time.
I believe Managed Objects is a natural fit for Novell for other reasons as well. For one, we share a number of customers in common and our lack of product overlap creates immediate benefit for those customers seeking a common data center management strategy. Second, we share a common value proposition. Our solutions are focused on helping clients reduce cost, complexity and risk. Managed Objects customer’s realize similar benefits through their unified approach to business service management. Finally, we share a mutual commitment to interoperability. Managed Objects extends our vision of “Making IT Work as One” by integrating customer’s existing IT management investments into a real-time model of the IT enterprise.
So we look forward to welcoming the employees and customers of Managed Objects into the Novell family….and in extending our commitment to providing the best cross-platform solution for the next generation data center.
John
October 20th, 2008 at 8:25 am
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October 31st, 2008 at 10:53 am
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November 27th, 2008 at 7:31 am
As John’s college freshamn roommate…I’d like to know why he doesn’t wear a tie!
February 16th, 2009 at 2:02 pm
John,
We would appreciate changes in licensing and partner product affiliations. Like the fact that on 2.1.09 RIM pulled its “free” licensing of the 5 user Blackberry Enterprise with Novell. It does not bode well for Novell or its’ partners to be surprised in the marketplace when mobility and interconnectivity and “making it work as one” is the stated platform that we market and sell to. Novell needs to do a better job of keeping these agreements or efforts in place. Nokia is another bummer with little or no resolution in the immediate future. Novell has to stop looking like it is surprised and be more forthcoming as if it controls these relationships. We need to stop the erosion of confidence of our customers and prospects in Novell and what it purports its purpose as.
Thanks
March 13th, 2009 at 9:08 pm
Planning on providing any new information for 2009?
March 23rd, 2009 at 11:33 am
What a shock – nothing from Novell Marketing!
At least they are finally stopping the pretense of having a marketing department.
March 27th, 2009 at 12:12 pm
Jeff, I’ll admit the blog postings have been few and far between but the critique on nothing from marketing is simply not true…the team at Novell works extremely hard on this and we market through several channels..if you are not included on our communication, let me know how to address.
Thanks.
John