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BrainShare 2006 was a huge success!!!
The events are over, but the celebration continues from a historic and hugely successful BrainShare 2006. Take a look at some of the announcements and highlights that continue to solidify BrainShare as the industry's premier technical conference. Take a look +
Novell Open Workgroup Suite Suite Announcement
At BrainShare 2006, Novell announced a new, exciting offer in the Workgroup space: Novell Open Workgroup Suite. Open Workgroup Suite provides your organization with a flexible and cost-effective IT infrastructure made up of proven, open standards-based software. It includes server and desktop platforms with complete management tools, e-mail and collaboration, and office-productivity software. This multiproduct suite offering is a clear alternative to a proprietary, Windows-centric solution for servers and desktops—and is available at a significant discount. Novell Open Workgroup Suite is available in two options, one for customers ready to deploy Linux throughout their environment and the other for customers who choose to deploy NetWare as their main platform but who want the option of introducing Linux when they feel it appropriate. Pricing details soon to follow and availablity is early May. Learn more +
BlackBerry Enterprise Server for Novell GroupWise Quick Start Edition Offer
Research In Motion® (RIM®), the leading designer, manufacturer and marketer of innovative wireless solutions for the worldwide mobile communications market, is extending a special, limited-time offer to qualified organizations to mobilize Novell® GroupWise® 7.0.
The BlackBerry Enterprise Server7™ for Novell GroupWise quick start edition offer* includes a free, full version download of the BlackBerry Enterprise Server® for Novell GroupWise. This offer lets you leverage the full functionality of the BlackBerry Enterprise Solution™ for Novell GroupWise to make your enterprise even more productive. Your organization can learn more about this offer and adopt exceptional manageability, simplified administration, end–to–end security, ease–of–use and increased user mobility. Learn more +
GroupWise Mobile Server, Powered by Intellisync
Integrate GroupWise with over 400 mobile devices—FREE!
Today's mobile professionals are boosting their productivity with smart phones—devices that give them access to e-mail, appointments, attachments and data from the Internet and corporate applications. With GroupWise Mobile Server, users can synchronize collaboration information between nearly any mobile device and their Novell GroupWise accounts—instantly increasing productivity and making GroupWise a more effective "home base" for information sharing than ever before.
If you have users on Palm* Treos, HP iPAQ* Pocket PCs, Nokia*, Motorola* or any of the other 400-plus devices supported by Intellisync, GroupWise Mobile Server will sync collaboration information between the server and the device. With GroupWise Mobile Server, your users have secure access to e-mail, appointments, tasks and notes from anywhere. They can view almost any type of attachment (word processing documents, spreadsheets or presentations) in graphical format. And when you enable the integrated "push" technology, GroupWise Mobile Server pushes data to the mobile device (through a wireless carrier of your choice or over WiFi) as soon as it arrives in the user's inbox.
And to ease administrators' burden, GroupWise Mobile Server delivers secure, over-the-air provisioning and configuration. It also simplifies support, system administration, device management and security—making it easy to deploy wireless solutions to the ever-increasing number of mobile users in their organizations. Check out the details +
+ March 2006 Press Release
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+ Novell Connection Magazine Article
+ November 2006 Press Release
News & Views
Press Releases +
+ 03 Apr —Novell Extends Open Source Leadership with SUSE Linux 10.1
+ 03 Apr —Novell Speeds Linux Innovation with Open Build Framework and Tools
+ 03 Apr —Novell's Mono Project Extends Microsoft .NET Framework to Linux
+ 03 Apr —South African Department of Home Affairs Taps Novell for Worldwide Collaboration on Linux
+ 21 Mar —Continuum Health Partners Turns to Novell for a Stable, Secure Open Enterprise
+ 21 Mar —Finland's Ministry of Defence Taps Novell for Move to Linux
+ 21 Mar —Webster Bank Relies on Novell to Securely Expand Its Business
+ 20 Mar —Dell, Novell Make It Easy to Manage Linux in the Enterprise
+ 20 Mar —Novell Announces Next-Generation Platform for the Open Enterprise
+ 20 Mar —Novell Delivers New Security and Identity Solutions to Streamline Compliance Management
+ 20 Mar —Novell Expands Market Start Program to Accelerate the Adoption of Open Source Application Software
+ 20 Mar —Novell Expands Options for Mobile Wireless Collaboration
+ 20 Mar —Novell Launches the 'Platform for the Open Enterprise' at BrainShare 2006
+ 20 Mar —Novell Unveils Long-Term Plans for Linux in the Workgroup
+ 20 Mar —Novell to Deliver First Linux Workgroup Suite
+ 09 Mar —Novell Announces Executive Appointments
+ 09 Mar —Novell's Next Generation Linux Desktop Redefines Desktop Market
+ 02 Mar —Novell Reports Financial Results for First Fiscal Quarter 2006
+ More
Novell in the News +
+ 03 Apr —Novell: it's the Linux desktop user stupid - part 1 —IT Wire
+ 03 Apr —Avnet Partner Solutions Introduces Integrated Linux Stack for SMB's — Linux Electrons
+ 03 Apr —IBM, Novell Collaborating On Linux Stacks —CRN
+ 03 Apr —Novell Chips Away at Microsoft's Desktop Dominance —Linux Planet
+ 03 Apr —Novell can move the needle in 2006 with Linux: marketing chief —IT Wire
+ 03 Apr —IBM Joins with Novell for Linux Solution —Beta News
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In Their Own Words
Catholic Healthcare West
With more than 40 locations, Catholic Healthcare West was managing user identities across hundreds of applications running on multiple platforms. A streamlined identity management solution running on Linux* has increased security and improved regulatory compliance, while dramatically reducing costs.
"A solution based on open standards fits our model of doing business," said Eric Leader, chief technology architect for Catholic Healthcare West. "Healthcare procedures are not proprietary, and information concerning how best to meet the needs of our patients is freely shared among caregivers. Because we work in an open community, it makes sense for us to have an open environment."
"Many of our applications require Microsoft Active Directory, but we were uncomfortable standardizing on a proprietary platform," said Leader. "Novell eDirectory supports open standards and allows us to manage identities across our diverse environment."
"We operate in a highly regulated environment where the requirements are always changing," said Leader. "We simply had to consolidate identity management or we would see a huge increase in time spent managing regulatory issues. The identity and access management solution provided by Novell helps us stay ahead of the curve."
"Microsoft licensing became too burdensome, so we looked for lower-cost alternatives and found that many of our large vendors were providing support for Linux and open source," said Leader. "As we purchase new software, we look for vendors who run on Linux. Eventually, we would like to run our entire organization on Linux."
"The flexibility we have with SUSE Linux has exceeded our expectations," said Leader. "There is no way we could keep up with rapid change if we continued to manage proprietary platforms. We now have a cost-effective way to remain compliant and maintain high availability."
"Before implementing the Novell solution, we provisioned users in a hundred different ways," said Leader. "We didn't think we could streamline this process without substantially increasing our staff. With the Novell solution, we have a high quality, yet cost-effective solution that actually frees up much of our staff to work on other projects."
"Novell's support for Linux has been excellent," said Leader. "We've now moved Linux from a hypothetical idea to a mission-critical platform in our organization." Read more +
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Support Life Cycle
The Novell Support Life Cycle defines the duration and levels of support customers can expect to receive as products move through their life cycle. This information will assist in the management of support needs and future software upgrades.
It is recommended that you visit this site often to see what has changed. There have been a number of products that are no longer supported by technical support. View the Discontinued Product list to see what products are not supported. There are also a number of products that will soon be discontinued. View the Support Life Cycle Product Forecast list to see what products are about to have support end.
Go there now +
Here's a list of products leaving General Support within the next 90 days:
| Product name |
Gen. Support End Date |
Ext. Support End Date |
Self-support End Date |
Replacement Product |
| exteNd 5.2 Enterprise |
30 Jun 2006 |
30 Jun 2006 |
06 Jul |
exteNd 5.2.1 Enterprise |
| Suite |
2006 |
2008 |
2014 |
Suite |
| exteNd 5.2 Professional Suite |
30 Jun 2006 |
30 Jun 2008 |
06 Jul 2014 |
exteNd 5.2.1 Professional Suite |
| exteNd Application Server 5.2 EE |
30 Jun 2006 |
30 Jun 2008 |
06 Jul 2014 |
exteNd Application Server 5.2.1 |
| exteNd Composer 5.2 Enterprise Edition |
30 Jun 2006 |
30 Jun 2008 |
06 Jul 2014 |
exteNd Composer 5.2.1 |
| exteNd Director 5.2 Enterprise Edition |
30 Jun 2006 |
30 Jun 2008 |
06 Jul 2014 |
exteNd Directory 5.2.1 |
| Novell Client 3.4 for Windows 95/98 |
30 Jun 2006 |
30 Jun 2006 |
08 Aug 2013 |
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| Novell Client 4.9 for Windows NT/2000/XP |
30 Jun 2006 |
30 Jun 2006 |
30 Jun 2006 |
Novell Client 4.91 SP2 for Windows 2000/XP/2003 |
| Novell Nsure Audit 1.0 |
01 Jul 2006 |
01 Jul 2008 |
09 Jul 2013 |
Novell Audit 2.0 |
| Nsure Identity Manager 2 |
30 Jun 2006 |
30 Jun 2008 |
15 Jan 2014 |
Novell Identity Manager 3 |
Notable Downloadables
Products Recently Patched or Updated
Cool Solutions
Always wondered what users were part of what eDirectory Group?
Search eDirectory groups and list all members of these groups. Search the directory +
Novell Cool Solutions: Tip
If you've got any critical applications that you MUST be able to use on Linux, please take a minute to let us know what they are. We'll monitor the submissions to see what the most popular requests are, and do what we can to nudge the vendors in that direction. Together, your voices will count for more than they would separately.
Note: If you have more than one product to request, you'll need to fill out a separate submission form for each one. We may contact you via email for additional information if your request is particularly intriguing. Read more +
Novell Cool Solutions: Feature
PROBLEM: Too much spam and too many viruses in my mailbox. I decided to do something about it and thought maybe SUSE 9.3 Professional could help, but I couldn't find a cohesive single information source for setting up a reliable open source anti-spam/virus gateway for use on SUSE 9.3.
SOLUTION: I went through the pain that everyone else goes through the first time around setting up something new, but I documented it as well so as to help others just starting out and to remind myself in the following months exactly what I did and why. Request it here! +
Novell Cool Solutions: Cool Tool
LDAPManager is a Windows based LDAP editor and browswer. It supports many exciting features like server to server copy and a rules based attribute editing.
Read more +
Website of the Month
"For those inclined to think of our fading century as an era of the common man, let it be noted that the inventor of one of the century's greatest machines was a man called Phil. Even more, he was actually born in a log cabin, rode to high school on horseback and, without benefit of a university degree (indeed, at age 14), conceived the idea of electronic television — the moment of inspiration coming, according to legend, while he was tilling a potato field back and forth with a horse-drawn harrow and realized that an electron beam could scan images the same way, line by line, just as you read a book. To cap it off, he spent much of his adult life in a struggle with one of America's largest and most powerful corporations. Our kind of guy."
"There's nothing on it worthwhile, and we're not going to watch it in this household, and I don't want it in your intellectual diet." —Philo T. Farnsworth to his son Kent, regarding television. Check it out +
See Also:
+ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philo_Farnsworth
+ http://www.farnovision.com/
+ http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blfarnsworth.htm
