Desktop Linux

General office workers are the lifeblood of your organization. Give them a healthy dose of productivity with Desktop Linux.

General office workers run your operations, manage your business and sell your products. Ranging from marketing associates and office managers to operations managers and insurance agents, they rely on a robust desktop or notebook platform and use e-mail, Web browsing, instant messaging, multimedia applications and office productivity tools.

Everything They Need...Nothing They Don't

They find most of what they need on a basic desktop installation that lets them read and print documents and create letters, presentations and spreadsheets. They also want broad multimedia support so they can view their family photos and listen to music.

Get full productivity at 1/10^th the cost of Windows Vista and Office.

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But, these workers have limited technical skills and are easily frustrated when their computers experience downtime. So they require a stable operating system.

Windows Vista and Microsoft Office are too expensive and require too much hardware.

Desktop Linux: An Ideal Solution

Desktop Linux from Novell is the ideal solution for general office workers. In addition to its stability and security, breadth of applications, and familiar user interface, Desktop Linux also gives IT and the line of business dramatic cost savings they can use to invest in new services and capabilities.

That's why organizations like PSA Peugeot Citroën, San Diego Unified School District, Belgian Ministry of Justice, and the State of Tamil Nadu in India rely on Desktop Linux for the productivity of their general office workers.

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Transactional workers are the commerce engine of your organization. Desktop Linux keeps transactions productive and customers happy.

Bank sales/service representatives, call center representatives and other service personnel spend most of their time using a few specialized business applications, but also require collaboration applications, such as an e-mail client and Web browser, and productivity applications such as a word processor or spreadsheet.

Secure, Stable, Efficient, and Usable

Transactional workers don't need to interact with the operating system. So you want to lock down their desktop environment, to simplify the user experience and reduce support calls.

Desktop Linux from Novell is an excellent solution for these workers. It provides the security and stability needed to reliably power transactional environments and has an intuitive user interface that requires little training.

Keep business moving with an efficient, user-friendly interface.

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Higher Productivity...Lower Cost

The IT organization benefits with a more manageable and flexible platform that can be easily tailored to the needs of transactional workers. The company as a whole liberates significant budget by deploying a lower-cost operating system and office suite that meet users' needs without requiring excess software and hardware. IT and the line of business can invest in critical growth initiatives rather than technology maintenance that offers no return.

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The risk of losing corporate data gives you nightmares. Linux-based thin client computing lets everyone rest easy.

Corporate data is at risk. You feel the support burden of traditional PC computing. And your budget groans under the strain of unneeded software and hardware. That's why you're considering the advantages of thin client, server-based computing.

Your users need the right applications at the right time in the right place. But they don't always work in the same office. They don't all need dedicated machines. And they don't all need the same hardware.

Secure your data while improving manageability.

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Thin Client Desktop...Rich User Experience

Desktop Linux from Novell solves the security, management and cost challenges plaguing desktop computing today. It gives thin client users the same familiar user interface as a full PC. So the user experience is rich and intuitive.

With the ability to run both locally installed and server-based applications, you can optimize the computing environment to meet your organization's goals. It's easy to customize, easy to deploy and easy to update. Plus, it runs on nearly any thin client device or re-purposed PC, allowing you to lengthen your hardware lifecycles.

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In sales and service, dependability is the name of the game. Rely on Desktop Linux for total customer satisfaction.

As your public face to customers, front-line sales and service personnel are the most important people in your company. Technology must be a reliable and invisible enabler that helps them serve customers effectively.

At times, your Point Of Service (POS) platform is even a direct touch point to customers, when you deploy kiosks for self-service. Above all, your POS platform must deliver applications and services with rock-solid reliability. It can't go down. And it can't catch a virus.

At the same time, your IT organization knows the POS platform must be manageable and affordable. Devices that can't be easily updated with security patches and application enhancements are worth little. And a platform with costly maintenance fees just weighs you down.

Boost stability and security at your customer touchpoints.

Increased Reliability, Manageability and Affordability

Desktop Linux from Novell can increase your POS system's reliability, improve its manageability and free up maintenance fees so you can invest in innovation and growth.

Use the savings to deploy more kiosks, upgrade applications, or strengthen your back-office infrastructure. You can also benefit from centralized administration and deployment tools that let you build your operating system images centrally and deploy them locally, further reducing costs and complexity.

An Ecosystem of Partners

Choose from a broad ecosystem of hardware, application, consulting, training and support partners that offer complete solutions for POS environments—including leaders like IBM, NCR, Oracle and SAP Triversity. Customers such as Badcock Furniture and Casas Bahia, the largest retailer in Brazil, rely on it every day.

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With Desktop Linux, technical workstations become innovation workstations.

Technical workstation users are the creative and analytical force behind your organization. They design your products, bring animation to life, discover the laws of science, and crunch demanding mathematical models.

You need to give them the power and stability they need. And then you need to get out of their way. How? Desktop Linux offers the same rock-solid reliability and performance of UNIX, with greater flexibility and much lower cost.

UNIX computing power at a Linux price.

Did you know that SUSE® Linux Enterprise powers the SGI system that set a world record for sustained memory bandwidth? Or that SUSE Linux Enterprise runs the first, second, and third most powerful supercomputers in the world, according to TOP500?

Reliable, Flexible, Affordable

By combining power with efficiency, and stability with versatility, it delivers the best of UNIX and Windows: a robust platform for compute-intensive work and a user-friendly environment for collaboration and productivity tasks. All so you can migrate off expensive UNIX/RISC systems that require additional management software and support skills. Just like MTU Aero Engines did. Gain flexibility and freedom by liberating your budget while increasing your processing power.

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