Novell Acquisitions

Novell acquired the technology assets of Fortefi Ltd., a provider of compliance and privileged user management solutions.

A leader in business service management. This acquisition will extend Novell's portfolio of data center solutions by adding tools to provide a unified view of all information and workloads.

Founded in 2003, PlateSpin Ltd. provides a unified suite of solutions to help enterprises adopt, manage and extend their use of server virtualization in the data center. PlateSpin's patent-pending conversion and optimization technology liberates software from hardware platforms, allowing servers to be streamed over the enterprise network from any source to any destination. This freedom of movement ensures the best fit between server resource supply and application workload demands. Global 2000 companies use PlateSpin solutions to lower costs and solve today's most pressing data center initiatives such as server consolidation, disaster recovery and hardware migration.

A leader in open source team collaboration, extending Novell's leadership in, and commitment to, innovative and open collaboration solutions. SiteScape, the founder of the ICEcore open source collaboration project, brings impressive team workspace and real-time collaboration capabilities to Novell – key components of a broad unified communications and collaboration strategy. The melding of the two firms creates the industry's clear leader in open, enterprise-strength collaboration and social networking offerings, giving customers powerful, flexible ways to integrate new communications technologies into their environment and drive employee productivity and business innovation.

Best-of-breed provider in the endpoint security enforcement market. With Senforce Technologies, Novell is extending its policy-based management offerings to include a full suite of endpoint security solutions, ZENworks® Endpoint Security Management. (For more info go to www.novell.com/zenworks)

Provider of cross platform virtualization management software tools. RedMojo's products have been integrated into our ZENworks Data Center Automation product offerings. (For more info go to www.novell.com/dca)

A leading global provider of security information management and compliance monitoring solutions. This acquisition will make Novell a pioneer in delivering a single view of security and compliance activities across the entire enterprise.

A leading provider in host-based application security solutions for Linux. Novell's acquisition of Immunix, Inc. expands Novell's commitment to enterprise-class security.

A leading expert in IT asset management solutions. Novell's acquisition of Tally Systems Corp. will expand Novell® ZENworks® systems management offering.

A leading IT service provider focused on the successful development and implementation of enterprise class web-based applications and services

SUSE Linux is the leading enterprise Linux company in Europe. In addition, through its relationships with Conectiva and Turbolinux, SUSE Linux has been a leader in Latin America and Asia, as well. SUSE Linux is also one of the top providers of Linux to enterprises in the United States and North America.

Leader in desktop and server solutions that enable enterprise Linux adoption. This acquisition expands Novell's capacity to provide flexible information solutions to customers worldwide.

Leader in Web services-oriented application development. The acquisition will significantly expand Novell's ability to deliver on its one Net vision by enabling customers to quickly develop business applications that exploit the latest Web technologies while leveraging existing IT investments.

Developer of management solutions for mobile systems, including handheld devices. These technologies, combined with Novell ZENworks, will enable enterprises to efficiently manage and support mobile workforces.

Global IT services and eSolutions provider. Cambridge adds powerful new services and consulting capabilities to complement Novell's industry leading Net services software offering.

A provider of directory-based software solutions that empower anytime, anywhere computing. Through this acquisition, Novell acquired technology and expertise in content and service provisioning.

Developer of file system interfaces and protocols software. These technologies enhance Novell's opportunity to deliver the next-generation of advanced file sharing services on the Internet, thereby expanding Novell's portfolio of Net services software.

Provider of hosted Internet file sharing and publishing services enabling users to store, share, manage and publish files on the Internet. These services will be integrated with Novell In-the-Net Services such as caching, directory, identity management and messaging.

Directory-compatible policy-based network management software enabling businesses to establish rules that automate the management of traffic and quality-of-service across networks.

Developer of directory enhancement software aimed at simplifying the use of directory services for end users and providing robust tools and new levels of productivity for network administrators.