Novell Unveils Long-Term Plans for Linux in the Workgroup

Novell Unveils Long-Term Plans for Linux in the Workgroup

Novell today announced long-term plans for Novell® Open Enterprise Server, including a roadmap for two future product releases. Novell also announced it will continue to support Novell NetWare® 6.5 as long as customers choose to run it. As a result, Novell customers can continue to leverage their NetWare investments while gaining new options with Linux* to run their advanced services and applications, with little or no disruption to their current IT environments.

The next release of Open Enterprise Server, codenamed “Cypress,” is scheduled to be released in mid-2007 and is planned to contain features including server virtualization, improved integration of services between Microsoft* Active Directory and Novell eDirectoryTM using Kerberos, support for AMD and Intel x86-64-bit processors, and many others. “Ponderosa” is planned to follow, focusing on advanced solutions for Novell’s next generation of collaborative services, along with workgroup platform innovations for improving the productivity of knowledge workers. Since its introduction last year, Novell has shipped more than 8 million Open Enterprise Server licenses to nearly 10,000 new and existing customers.

“Our NetWare customers are embracing Open Enterprise Server, and new customers are adopting it, as well,” said Jeff Jaffe, Novell executive vice president and chief technology officer. “We have been extremely pleased with how both existing and new customers have received Open Enterprise Server to help them introduce the benefits of Linux into their environments. Future versions of Open Enterprise Server will focus on letting customers take full advantage of hardware enhancements, experience improved system interoperability and flexibly address the individual needs of their organization.”

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