12.29.07
Do-No-Evil Saturday – Part II: Novell’s Business and Business Partners
Novatium, which works with Novell, has itsbusiness plan explained.
Novatium Solutions Pvt Ltd will build its infrastructure on Novell Open Workgroup Suite. Novell Open Workgroup Suite provides comprehensive infrastructure and productivity solutions, including SUSE Linux Enterprise server.
On the other hand, one of Novell’s old competitors is going through liquidation at the moment.
Framingham’s ePresence Inc. reports a plan to distribute cash to its shareholders as part of its dissolution plan.
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EPresence was launched in 1983 as Banyan Systems, selling a network operating system and directory. But competitors such as Novell Inc. and Microsoft Corp. subsequently moved into that market and Banyan switched focus in 1997.
Moving on to Novell own business, consider this virtualization overview which includes Novell’s role in that arena.
The same is true with virtualization. There is VMware and the rest of the pack. Big players like Microsoft, Sun and Oracle have started making their moves, and open-source alternatives are being offered by Citrix, Novell and Red Hat. Additionally, interesting things are happening with startups. Even so, at this point the virtualization game is dominated by VMware.
Novell’s PR blog reported good performance with Novell Sentinel at NCDEX.
NCDEX requires rock solid process monitoring and compliance reporting and they have picked Novell Sentinel to help them with this. NCDEX will use Novell Sentinel to automate data collection, provide a centralized view of the data collected, protect against network intrusion, and simplify auditing and reporting to regulators.
There is not much else to cover because of the holiday. █
