Latest incarnation of Novell bringing Linux to Asia
Submitted by srlinuxx on Thu, 10/18/2007 - 11:47.
Novell Suse Linux is positioning itself to be the corporate Linux of choice for today's multi-OS corporation thanks to a series of agreements with companies such as SAP and Microsoft. In particular Novell is interested in the government sector in Asia, which features large scale deployments where a full-featured desktop may not be necessary.
Speaking recently in Bangkok, Novell executive vice president for worldwide sales, Thomas Francese, and Maarten Kostner, president for Asia-Pacific, explained the evolution of Novell from a Netware company through to its Groupwise workgroup, which still has a loyal following, all the way to today's systems resource management, identity management and security management and one of the most talked-about Linux distributions. A copy of its Suse Linux is said to be download ever six seconds.
''We're an information infrastructure company. We are different from RedHat in that we deliver up the stack _ security, systems management, virtualisation _ and we are more than just open source,'' Francese explained.
Novell Extends Enterprise Linux Management Leadership
Novell announced the availability of Novell® ZENworks® 7.2 Linux Management, giving customers a powerful new option for their enterprise Linux* management needs. This latest version, which includes support for SUSE® Linux Enterprise 10 from Novell and Red Hat Enterprise Linux, is the only policy-based solution on the market that offers multi-vendor Linux support.
It also includes full lifecycle management to help customers deploy, manage and maintain their Linux resources. With expanded platform support and enhanced management capabilities, ZENworks Linux Management enables customers to reduce the time and cost spent managing their Linux systems.
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