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DAILY NEWS AND INFORMATION
FOR THE GLOBAL GRID COMMUNITY / SEPTEMBER 15, 2003: VOL. 2 NO. 37
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Breaking News - Operating Systems
& Middleware:
Novell Expands Customer Options
For Open-Platform Computing
Novell unveiled a series of solutions at its annual BrainShare Europe
conference to help customers and partners take advantage of open-platform
computing, providing powerful new ways for organizations to build, deploy,
secure and manage business processes across multiplatform environments,
including Linux. BrainShare Europe marks continued forward progress in
Novell's delivering on its vision of one Net, a world without information
boundaries.
"Novell has recently been in the news for our Linux strategy and our
acquisition of Ximian, important steps in our commitment to offer business
solutions for all the leading platforms on the market. Today's announcements
prove our engineers have been hard at work turning this commitment into
reality," said Jack Messman, chairman and CEO of Novell. "All the solutions
we're announcing give customers new choices on how they can run their
businesses better, take advantage of the Web, and secure their environments.
No other vendor can match Novell in cross-platform support. We don't just talk
about it -- we're delivering it."
Reinforcing its commitment to the Linux space, Novell is opening for beta
testing Novell Nterprise Linux Services, a bundle of file, print, messaging,
directory and management services in an integrated package for the Linux
platform. Novell also announced the beta availability of Novell Nterprise
Branch Office 2, a cross-platform-compatible soft appliance that lets
organizations provide complete network services to their branch offices
securely and inexpensively, without IT staff on site. Novell rolled out new
solutions for secure Web services, starting with the upcoming beta version of
Novell exteNd 5, a full-featured J2EE development and deployment stack
designed to help companies turn their existing business processes quickly and
easily into Web services. Novell Nsure SecureLogin 3.5, an updated identity
management solution that allows single sign-on across multiple platforms and
the Web, gives customers new options for improving security and management of
their diversified networks.
Novell also outlined its decision to bring its independent software and
hardware vendor partners into its PartnerNet program, joining them with
Novell's channel, integrator and training partners under a single banner to
more effectively promote Novell's broad partner ecosystem. Novell's standards-
based approach to both platform and development environments, and its strong
presence in the open-source community through its recent acquisition of
Ximian, make it an increasingly attractive option for developers.
"In recent years, Novell hasn't been fertile ground for software and
hardware
companies looking to expand their markets. But we're determined to change
that," said Chris Stone, vice chairman of the office of the CEO of Novell.
"We're building with, and to, open standards. We're putting our money where
our mouth is on open source. And today, we're bringing ISV and IHV partners
into our PartnerNet program, giving them new benefits and opportunities to
leverage our software, our relationships and our other partners. We want to
become the partner of choice for ISV/IHVs."
The 13th-annual BrainShare Europe event draws some 1,200 of Novell's top
customers and partners from Europe, the Middle East and Africa for a week of
technical and business sessions around Novell and partner solutions. With
nearly 150 technical and business sessions, executive and partner keynotes,
and the one Net solutions lab demonstrating the latest Novell and partner
technologies, the event showcases Novell's expanding leadership in cross-
platform services, Web application development, and secure identity management
solutions. For details on Novell BrainShare Europe 2003, please visit
www.novell.com/brainshare/
Europe.
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