Novell Open Enterprise Server

Features and Benefits

Are you satisfied with your current software vendor? Many organizations are looking for more freedom and choice. They are tired of being tied to a single vendor and forced to add or upgrade to other technologies from that same vendor to ensure support for their systems. Novell® Open Enterprise Server resolves this problem, offering you secure, highly available and proven networking services in an open environment.

With Novell Open Enterprise Server, users receive:

• File and Storage Services
• High-availability Services
• Management Services
• Networking and Productivity Services
• Identity-management and Security Services

Open Enterprise Server incorporates the best from both open source and commercial networking leaders. It unites NetWare and SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server to give you industry-leading networking services, integrated common management tools, identity-based services for unsurpassed security and high-availability solutions to ensure your services are always available. Add to this an entire support ecosystem backed by Novell.

features

Those who are familiar with NetWare will notice several new features added to popular NetWare favorites:

• The NetWare operating system and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9 operating system (Intel-based x86 platform)
• Integrated common management tools (iManager for NetWare and Linux)
• Novell Storage Services® on Linux
• Migration tools and upgrade utilities (for Linux, Microsoft* and NetWare)
• The ZENworks Linux Management update manager
• Virtual Office management enhancements
• Mapped drive support for Linux from a Novell client (scheduled in an upcoming support pack)
• Common Information Module (CIM) instrumentation
• Clustering on either NetWare or Linux
• iPrint client for Linux and Macintosh desktops

benefits

With Novell Open Enterprise Server, you can:

• Achieve greater choice and flexibility by deploying Linux and other open source technologies into your environment
• Minimize training costs by leveraging current infrastructure, skill sets and technology investments
• Install the foundation for additional industry-leading network resource- and identity-management services for your enterprise
• Achieve enterprise-class scalability for networking, application, collaboration, security and storage services
• Build the foundation for a complete Linux-based server-to-desktop alternative to current enterprise offerings
• Partner with the leading networking vendors and gain access to the Novell global ecosystem for technical assistance, consulting, training, certification and development services
• Mitigate business risk through proven high-availability, service-failover and disaster-recovery solutions
• Manage your mixed environment of NetWare and Linux through a single Web-based management interface and simplify IT staff workload
• Realize a solid return on investment by lowering ongoing system-management and hardware costs by moving to an Intel-based platform

Encompassing both the NetWare and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server platforms, Novell Open Enterprise Server delivers some of the best technologies and services developed by the open source community, as well as fully developed enterprise services that routinely solve business problems for large-scale customers. And Novell makes the transition easy: Novell Open Enterprise Server is backed by the industry's finest enterprise-level consulting, training, education and support services.

For more information about how Open Enterprise Server adds value to Linux and is a smart alternative to Windows, please see "Bottom Line—;The Right Stuff" in the 2005 Open Enterprise Server special edition of Connection Magazine.