Big Biz Tools at Small Biz Prices
Level the playing field for your small retail business. Novell Open Workgroup Suite Small Business Edition offers a full-featured desktop-to-server solution—all at a fraction of the cost you would have had to pay even a couple of years ago. Reap the benefits of open source and get what you need to compete.
Is your small retail business ready to enjoy all the benefits of big-business software? Now you can—and without draining your budget. Novell Open Workgroup Suite Small Business Edition gives you a comprehensive, flexible solution with benefits from the server room to the desktop. You get a complete stack of full-featured software to boost your productivity, so you can concentrate on what you do best: running your shop.
- Novell Open Enterprise Server—A powerful, flexible platform to host your print and storage services
- Novell GroupWise®—a collaboration product that provides secure e-mail and calendaring capabilities
- SUSE® Linux Enterprise Desktop—a business-ready Linux desktop to support office applications
- OpenOffice.org Novell Edition—the full-featured open source productivity suite that runs on Windows or Linux
These products deliver essential components for any competitive business: a powerful Linux server platform, office productivity tools, an e-mail and calendaring solution, integrated firewall and backup capabilities, a fax solution, storage and print services and much more. Novell Open Workgroup Suite Small Business Edition is modular, so you can deploy its components to fit your existing business policies and processes. In fact, many organizations first take advantage of the high-performance Linux server, deploying it on the backend, and then switching to low-cost commodity hardware. This deployment offers flexibility because your end users can continue to use their existing Windows desktops. There's no learning curve for your users, and you save money on both hardware and licensing compared to alternative solutions.
Novell Open Workgroup Suite Small Business Edition is priced aggressively, a stark contrast to the high licensing costs of all-proprietary software stacks. In fact, one Novell suite license supports up to 200 users, while Microsoft Small Business Server supports only 75 users per license. And if you purchase Microsoft Small Business Server 2003 R2, you'll have to purchase Microsoft Office separately. The Novell edition of OpenOffice.org, which runs on both Windows and Linux desktops, provides 90 percent of the same functionality as Microsoft Office, supports Microsoft Office formats, and is included with Novell Open Workgroup Suite at no extra cost. You can save up to 80 percent on your software acquisition costs by selecting Novell Open Workgroup Suite Small Business Edition instead of a Windows-centric environment from Microsoft.