Novell tightens Netline partnership
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Novell has extended a partnership to sell software for e-mail and other server functions from Netline Internet Service, the companies said Thursday.
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Novell is teaming with IBM to make it simpler to install SUSE Linux 10 on to System z servers.
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Novell has released details of its landmark partnership with Microsoft.
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The partnership between Microsoft Corp.   and Novell Inc.  has delayed completion of a  new license that will govern rights to key parts of the Linux  operating system.
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TechWeb - Novell said that proposed revisions to the General Public License could force the company to modify its relationship with Microsoft or find alternatives to the deal.
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Novell Inc. today said it has reached a $536 million settlement with Microsoft over antitrust issues related to Novell's NetWare network operating software.
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InfoWorld - Novell this week spruced up a version of its Linux desktop aimed squarely at enterprise users.
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Novell this week spruced up a version of its Linux desktop aimed squarely at enterprise users.
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Novell (Quote, Chart) announced today that it was moving up the timetable by 10 months on its new Open Enterprise Server (OES). The new server, due out in February, will include Novell&#39;s NetWare operating
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With Novell concentrating on Linux more and more, many NetWare consumers might be facing dilemmas on where to move on for future needs.
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(InfoWorld) - Novell is expandingÂ its Zenworks software lineupÂ to span from the desktop to the data center, unveiling three new products and an update to another tool. The rollout announced Tuesday included Zenworks Virtual Machine Management, which the company said will work in data centers using disparate virtualization systems, including ones from VMware Inc., XenSource and Microsoft. Novell also introduced Zenworks High-Performance Computing (HPC) Management, which manages Java applications and distributes workloads for parallel execution, and Zenworks Orchestrator for overall policy-based automation. Also Tuesday, the company introduced Zenworks 7.5 Asset Management, which provides information about IT assets including Windows Vista and Novell's Suse Linux Enterprise Desktop 10. Even as hardware and software virtualization has cut costs and increased flexibility, data centers have been sprawling and their overall cost is going up, said Joe Wagner, general manager of Novell's system and resource management business unit, on a conference call Tuesday. Enterprises need tools to simplify, automate, manage and secure their systems, he said. Novell, once king of the network-management hill, is struggling with tough competition and under fire from the open-source community forÂ a recent technology and support deal with Microsoft. A possible delisting from the Nasdaq also looms amid an ongoing review of stock-option grants. By aiming to make sense of virtualization, the company may tap into a growing trend. Zenworks Virtual Machine Management is the first product of its kind for heterogenous virtual machine environments, Wagner said. The HPC Management tool can move large volumes of data to remote locations where resources are available to process it. Under the Orchestrator software, the product line can use policies to schedule jobs, reserve resources and change priorities on the fly when needed, according to Novell. The product announcements don't change Novell'sÂ relationship with Virtual Iron Software, said Alan Murray, Novell's vice president of product management. Earlier this year, Novell began providing support and application certification for Virtual Iron's virtualization and management software in Suse Linux. Novell's new products will interoperate with Virtual Iron's and the relationship is ongoing, he said. Zenworks 7.5 Asset Management is available now for $33 per user or managed device. The new products announced Tuesday will be available in early December, and pricing for them will be disclosed at that time, Novell said.
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Novell will support Microsoft Office's Open XML file format in its version of OpenOffice by the end of January.
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Linux distributor agrees to licensing deal similar to the one Novell struck with Microsoft last year.
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Novell Inc. has just announced details of its latest Linux offering for desktop computers. The software is to be known as the Novell Linux Desktop 9, hopefully to be shortened to NLD 9, and will be the first
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WHAT MICROSOFT DID: Paid $536 million cash to rival Novell Inc. to settle potential antitrust complaints over Microsoft&#39;s alleged actions toward Novell&#39;s Netware operating system, which competes with Windows software.
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(InfoWorld) - Novell and Honeywell are planning to announce the fruits of a project to link physical and logical access products from the two companies, offering government agencies and large enterprises a way to tie building and network access privileges together seamlessly, according executives from the two companies. The two companies plan to announce software updates and new products that are part of the solution in February, said Beth Thomas product manager for Honeywell's Smart Plus platform. The integration is Federal Information Processing Standards Publication 201 (FIPS 201) compliant and the first such effort by Novell to work with a physical access security vendor. The news comes as companies look for ways to tap into a fast-growing market for integrated physical and logical control systems mandated by Homeland Security Presidential Directive 12 (HSPD-12). In February, Honeywell will release a new version of its ProWatch access control system and Smart Plus, a server that provides a Web services interface to Honeywell's physical access products. Novell released an update to its Identity Assurance identity management product in December, adding connectors to facilitate integration with physical access systems. The company will add more workflows and XML signing capabilities to the product in April to assist convergence, said Baber Amin, Novell's senior product manager for security and identity. The technology partnership, which was announced in October, will allow customers using products from both companies to link user credentials from data stores and user provisioning systems such as PeopleSoft  through Novell's Identity Assurance product to Honeywell's ProWatch, so that physical access to buildings and rooms is linked closely with logical access to computers and network resources. Similarly, actions to revoke an employee's physical access in ProWatch can be used to trigger automated network deprovisioning on the logical side, Amin said. The integrated solution provides a partial answer to a vexing problem within enterprises, where physical security and logical security are often managed by different groups with little overall coordination. Many times that means that employees or contractors who are denied building access on their last day of work continue to enjoy remote access to network resources days or even weeks later, Amin said. The link to Access Manager will also allow companies to create more sophisticated access policies and workflow that bind physical and logical attributes. For example, Honeywell door access readers could contribute to NAC (Network Access Control) solutions by signaling to a switch to activate a network port in an office only after an employee has badged into the building or office, Amin said. The companies will initially sell the solutions into large enterprises in regulated industries such as pharmaceuticals, health care, and financial services. Federal government agencies, which are under pressure to comply with HSPD-12, are also a target. One federal agency is already testing a beta version of the integrated products, Thomas said. While integrations between logical and physical access vendors have been possible before, FIPS and HSPD-12 have provided the market for vendors to get behind converged physical and logical access, she said. "It really took the federal government with FIPS to put the emphasis on this," she said. Among other things, companies are uniting physical and IT security teams under one C-level executive -- either a CIO or CSO. That makes converged security sales easier to carry off, Thomas said. But Geoff Turner, a senior analyst at Forrester, said that true convergence is still a long way away. "Convergence is happening, but not as quickly as some people predicted," he said. Among the obstacles to widespread integrations between logical and physical security vendors is confusion about which companies will play a lead role in the converged solution set, he said. "Vendors are kind of casting about and trying to divine their place in a converged world," he said. "They want to know 'How do I do this and not lose my advantage?'" Both Thomas and Amin said that the technology that makes the Novell-Honeywell convergence work could also work with other vendors. However, the two companies are focused on working with each other.
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Microsoft is campaigning for Novell NetWare users, again. This time Microsoft is wooing Netware users with a migration package that contains several incentives ranging from tools, prescriptive