Woodbine Sees Novell and Linux as Sure Bet

Woodbine Sees Novell and Linux as Sure Bet

Novell today announced that Woodbine Entertainment Group, a billion-dollar provider of racing, gaming and entertainment products, has chosen Novell for secure collaboration and automated desktop management. The company is providing employees with reliable tools that support its e-mail intensive work environment, reduce administration costs by 80 percent, streamline resource management and improve virus protection. As a result, Woodbine is lowering overall costs and dramatically increasing productivity.

Woodbine evaluated Microsoft* Exchange before upgrading to Novell® GroupWise® to run on Novell’s SUSE™ Linux Enterprise Server, giving users better performance and even greater protection against virus attacks. Specifically, employees are taking advantage of the more robust calendaring and scheduling features as well as secure instant messaging. Now the company only needs one administrator, instead of the team of people required to support Windows*.

“We took a good look at Microsoft Exchange, but had far too many security concerns,” said Randy Folmes, director of information services at Woodbine Entertainment. “We know the damage that a single virus can cause. Novell GroupWise running on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server is one of the best decisions we’ve ever made. It gave us reliable e-mail which is at the core of our business, and we don’t ever worry about downtime.”

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