Novell Open Workgroup Suite
for Small Business
More Productivity and Profit for Your Small Business
This is the beautiful thing about running a small business in the 21st century—you don't have to pay top dollar or settle for second best anymore. Novell Open Workgroup Suite for Small Business offers a full-featured desktop-to-server solution running on Linux—all at a fraction of the cost of competing solutions. Reap the benefits of open source and get what you need to compete.
Big Biz Tools
Is your organization ready to enjoy all the benefits of big-business software? Now you can—and without draining your budget. Novell Open Workgroup Suite for Small Business gives you a comprehensive, flexible solution with benefits from the server room to the desktop. You get a complete stack of full-featured software to boost your productivity.
- Novell Open Enterprise Server components—a set of advanced management, storage and printing services
- Novell ZENworks® Configuration Management Standard Edition—a systems management tool that automates software setup, updates, healing and migration for Windows
- Novell ZENworks Endpoint Security Management—bring together all of the tools needed to manage and secure network endpoints using just a single console and one, distributed, agent.
- Novell GroupWise®—a personal-productivity dashboard that provides secure and reliable email and calendaring
- Novell Vibe™—a team collaboration tool that enables people to generate, act on and preserve great ideas
- LibreOffice—a full-featured open source productivity suite that runs on Windows or Linux
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop—a business-ready Linux desktop to support office applications
Novell Open Workgroup Suite for Small Business is based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10, which lets you take full advantage of the extra processing power, added memory capabilities and improved power and cooling savings offered by 64-bit dual-core and multi-core processors from Intel and AMD.
The Suite delivers the essential components needed for any competitive business and also features an integrated installation process to minimize the time and cost of deployment.
Small Biz Prices
Novell Open Workgroup Suite for Small Business is priced aggressively, a stark contrast to the high licensing costs of all-proprietary software stacks. In fact, one Novell suite license supports up to 200 users, while Microsoft Small Business Server supports only 75 users per license. And if you purchase Microsoft Small Business Server 2008, you’ll have to purchase Microsoft Office separately. LibreOffice—which runs on both Windows and Linux desktops provides 90 percent of the same functionality as Microsoft Office, supports Microsoft Office formats, and is included with Novell Open Workgroup Suite at no extra cost.
Unlike the Microsoft alternative, with Novell Open Workgroup Suite for Small Business you're entitled to deploy up to 5 physical servers to host collaboration services or any application that supports SUSE Linux Enterprise Server. You can also install an unlimited number of virtualized SUSE Linux Enterprise Server guests (limited only by hardware).
You can save up to 75 percent on your software acquisition costs by selecting Novell Open Workgroup Suite for Small Business instead of a Windows-centric environment from Microsoft.