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Today, we have more of the fallout from the Novell-Microsoft deal which continues to dominate conversations about the networking company we want to love – and the one we love to hate. Backpedaling, “clarifications”, interviews and press releases are pouring out of Redmond and Waltham. But, as I said last week, we’re going to ignore that for now as we tie up the loose ends and get ready to turn the light off on the NetWare newsletter.
I do appreciate all the wonderful comments I’ve gotten from you in the past couple of weeks urging us to keep going. But I'm afraid the writing is on the wall and it’s written in indelible ink. And Novell supplied the pen.
A press release crossed my desk last week which began: “Novell today announced the first offerings of its desktop-to-data center management initiative, including the availability of a comprehensive set of solutions which orchestrate the management of virtual machines, high-performance computing and other IT resources.” This announced Novell’s new and reworked ZENworks offerings, including:
* Novell ZENworks Orchestrator
* Novell ZENworks Virtual Machine Management
* Novell ZENworks HPC Management
* Novell ZENworks 7.5 Asset Management
That was good news, I guess. Certainly ZENworks has been a plus. The sad part, though, was the statement: “Systems management solutions from Novell provide open standards-based management that covers the entire enterprise IT environment, from Linux to Unix to Windows, and helps customers maximize the value of their technology infrastructure.” Evidently Novell believes that NetWare has no part in your “technology infrastructure.” We know it stopped selling it to you, but this is the first time I can remember it glibly overlooking the fact that you might still be running NetWare.
Dave Kearns is a writer and consultant in Silicon Valley. He's written a number of books including the (sadly) now out of print "Peter Norton's Complete Guide to Networks." His musings can be found at Virtual Quill.
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Novell's systems management initiative appears to have overlooked NetWare By Anonymous on December 14, 2006, 11:29 pm Reply | Read entire comment Amazing! My company (Engelhard Corp) was just purchased by BASF, they are going to move us from Active Directory to NDS with Netware servers. The big kicker is;...
eDirectory Rules By Tim Wessels on December 26, 2006, 9:38 pm Reply | Read entire comment It never fails to amaze me when someone thinks Active Directory (AD) is better technology than eDirectory (eDir). A previous poster is right...AD is built on...
BASF is thinking globally... By JimS on December 20, 2006, 1:52 pm Reply | Read entire comment I can't help wondering if you're misreading a lot. BASF is probably using the latest version of eDirectory, which is much more powerful than Active Directory...
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