Novell Launches the ‘Platform for the Open Enterprise’ at BrainShare 2006

Novell Launches the ‘Platform for the Open Enterprise’ at BrainShare 2006

Today at BrainShare 2006, Novell launched the Platform for the Open Enterprise, an architecture of software and services from Novell and its partners built to help customers benefit from open source and open-standards based computing. As a key component of its new platform strategy, Novell today unveiled SUSE® Linux Enterprise 10 – the core of the platform for the open enterprise – as well as enhancements to its security, identity and collaboration offerings.

Novell also announced a significant expansion of its partnership with Dell, expansion of its Market Start program, and roadmaps for key product lines. With these new announcements and the expansion of the company’s strategy of providing open source and open standards-based solutions, customers now more than ever will benefit from choice, lower costs and a more productive IT infrastructure to help them grow their business.

“Open source and open standards-based computing have accelerated rapidly over the last year, and BrainShare 2006 is the the best place in the industry to see both how far we’ve come and what’s next on the horizon,” said Jack Messman, chairman and CEO of Novell. “The BrainShare theme of ‘Open for Growth’ emphasizes what this progress is all about: freeing up organizations to leverage technology in ways that improve their business. With today’s launch of SUSE Linux Enterprise 10, we are the only software company providing a real platform for the open enterprise.”

With a more than 20-year history, BrainShare remains one of the premier conferences for customers to learn about new technologies and network with colleagues in the industry. Novell’s emergence as a leader in open source and open standards in the last few years has transformed the event into the largest user conference focused on open enterprise computing.

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