With a little help from your friends…
February 14th, 2007 by Bruce Lowry 
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It’s been a big news week for Novell, with a lot of focus on virtualization. If you didn’t catch the Infoworld Virtualization Executive Forum, they’re archiving presentations here. Carlos Montero-Luque, our VP of product management for Open Platform Solutions, presented in conjunction with Microsoft on our technical collaboration announcement from Monday.
That announcement was just one of several cool bits of news this week with partners. We put out another release Monday with Intel about virtualizing Windows2000/2003/XP Server unmodified on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 via Xen. Today we unveiled some new workgroup teaming and real-time collaboration work we’re doing with SiteScape. In addition, IBM put out a couple of announcements today involving Novell, one on the Integrated Stack for SUSE Linux Enterprise running on IBM System p servers, and another about work Novell, AMD and IBM are doing together around IBM’s Informyx Dynamic Server (codename “Cheetah”). This latter will combine IDS Cheetah, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server and IBM xSeries 3105 servers, running on AMD Opteron 1000 Series processors, for an small/medium sized business solution focused on security and high availability.
Five announcements in three days involving Novell’s work with IBM, Microsoft, Intel, AMD and SiteScape… That’s nice cross-platform industry validation for Novell’s offerings. It’s good to have friends..
February 18th, 2007 at 10:55 am
HI Bruce,
Novell PR has touted the awards its products have garnered, the partnerships it has generated, and now the seemingly endless new products and devices.
For the casual observer, Novell has been an ever morphing moving target. If you could announce five hefty sales in a week, that Novell and not MS produced, instead of and endless stream of awards and parnerships that never seem to monetize the apparently brilliant work of your engineers, it would show more than the ten years of backslapping PR announcements.
When will Novell focus, market, and sell a simple money making product that everyone can precieve as a distictly
Novell product that they must have. Its there, you know it, I know it.
How about some simplify and sell announcements? The MS, IBM, HP, etc. deals have looked great for a decade, but its time marketing at Novell simplified and sold product.
February 20th, 2007 at 4:45 pm
Lawrence … you can see many Novell customer stories, with news ones posted every week, at http://www.novell.com/success/.