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    Novell Plots Server Strategy

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    Peter Galli
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    March 29, 2004
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      Novell Inc. is upbeat about NetWare, even though its flagship networking software wont be available as a stand-alone product next year.

      The Provo, Utah, company announced at its BrainShare conference here last week that NetWare will be a core part of its upcoming Novell Open Enterprise Server platform when it ships at the end of this year.

      Novell CEO and Chairman Jack Messman said in an interview that the company has not sacrificed NetWare at the Linux altar and that NetWare will be supported into the future. In fact, Messman said, the kernel from the next release of NetWare, Version 7.0, will be included in the first version of Open Enterprise Server.

      The SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 9 kernel will also be included in Open Enterprise Server—but in addition will be retained as a stand-alone SuSE Linux product—as will a collection of networking services, including Nterprise Linux Services, which will interoperate between the two environments, Messman said.

      SuSE Linux, which Novell acquired earlier this year, will roll out SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 9—which is based on the new Linux 2.6 kernel—around midyear, giving users performance improvements, Direct I/O and improved memory support, SuSE officials said.

      Some Novell customers are happy. “[This] is a good move. It gives us flexibility, while at the same time allows us to pursue our IT goals,” said Anthony Hill, chief technology officer for Golden Gate University, in San Francisco.

      Messman said that while theres not a lot of profit to be made on Linux per se, revenue will come from selling the services that go with it. “The extent to which people adopt Linux and need those up-the-stack services, thats the extent to which our Linux business will grow and be profitable,” Messman said.

      Alan Nugent, Novells CTO, said the NetWare focus is far more on the up-the-stack services than on the base kernel. As such, the NetWare kernel base for Open Enterprise Server 9 will be essentially the NetWare 6.5 kernel.

      “I dont anticipate any substantial changes in the kernel architecture of NetWare 6.5. The kernel doesnt need to change much, as its all the stuff above it that changes,” Nugent said.

      Novell is committed to a strategy of offering proprietary software as well as embracing Linux and open source, but it plans to give back more to the open-source community than it takes, Messman said.

      Peter Galli
      Peter Galli has been a financial/technology reporter for 12 years at leading publications in South Africa, the UK and the US. He has been Investment Editor of South Africa's Business Day Newspaper, the sister publication of the Financial Times of London.He was also Group Financial Communications Manager for First National Bank, the second largest banking group in South Africa before moving on to become Executive News Editor of Business Report, the largest daily financial newspaper in South Africa, owned by the global Independent Newspapers group.He was responsible for a national reporting team of 20 based in four bureaus. He also edited and contributed to its weekly technology page, and launched a financial and technology radio service supplying daily news bulletins to the national broadcaster, the South African Broadcasting Corporation, which were then distributed to some 50 radio stations across the country.He was then transferred to San Francisco as Business Report's U.S. Correspondent to cover Silicon Valley, trade and finance between the US, Europe and emerging markets like South Africa. After serving that role for more than two years, he joined eWeek as a Senior Editor, covering software platforms in August 2000.He has comprehensively covered Microsoft and its Windows and .Net platforms, as well as the many legal challenges it has faced. He has also focused on Sun Microsystems and its Solaris operating environment, Java and Unix offerings. He covers developments in the open source community, particularly around the Linux kernel and the effects it will have on the enterprise.He has written extensively about new products for the Linux and Unix platforms, the development of open standards and critically looked at the potential Linux has to offer an alternative operating system and platform to Windows, .Net and Unix-based solutions like Solaris.His interviews with senior industry executives include Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, Linus Torvalds, the original developer of the Linux operating system, Sun CEO Scot McNealy, and Bill Zeitler, a senior vice president at IBM.For numerous examples of his writing you can search under his name at the eWEEK Website at www.eweek.com.

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