Novell announces availability of SuSE Enterprise Server 10

Novell kicks off BrainShare 2006 with announcement of availability of SuSE Enterprise Linux Server 10.

Novell at its annual user conference BrainShare in Salt Lake City Monday announced the availability of SuSE Enterprise Linux Server 10 and made a variety of announcements aimed at getting users to migrate from Novell’s proprietary NetWare operating system to the open source Linux.

In his keynote address, CEO and Chairman Jack Messman claimed that 6,000 people were attending BrainShare, including 800 new customer attendees.

The company announced it would support NetWare 6.5 until 2015 as a client operating system running in a virtualized Xen server environment.

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Novell at its annual user conference BrainShare in Salt Lake City Monday announced the availability of SuSE Enterprise Linux Server 10 and made a variety of announcements aimed at getting users to migrate from Novell’s proprietary NetWare operating system to the open source Linux.

In his keynote address, CEO and Chairman Jack Messman claimed that 6,000 people were attending BrainShare, including 800 new customer attendees.

The company announced it would support NetWare 6.5 until 2015 as a client operating system running in a virtualized Xen server environment.

Novell introduced two software packages for mobile users – GroupWise Mobile Server with Intellisync, which supports 400 mobile devices, and the BlackBerry for GroupWise QuickStart Offer. GroupWise Mobile Server is free to GroupWise ustomers with maintenance agreements.

The company also announced the Open Workspace Suite, a software package which includes GroupWise collaboration, ZENworks and Open Enterprise Server. Users of the Novell Open Workspace Suite can deploy either Windows XP or SuSE Linux Enterprise Desktop on their workstations or laptops.

SLES 10, code-named Code 10, will include virtualization capability with the Xen hypervisor, consolidated software management and support for the Common Information Model.

The company said it would incorporate elements of Dell's OpenManage software into its ZENworks 7 Linux Management to manage Dell PowerEdge servers running Linux. ZENworks 7 Linux Management Dell Edition will be able to manage either Red Hat Enterprise Linux or Novell SuSE Enterprise Server. It is expected to be available through Dell on April 19.

SLES 10, which is in beta now, is expected to be available this summer.

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