Summary: Novell€® Cloud Manager is just another example of Novell lock-in pretending to be the opposite of lock-in

In a new press release (see one mirror among many) Novell announces proprietary software which is intended to manage Fog Computing. CRN's headline says that "Novell Promises No More Private Cloud Lock-In With Cloud Manager" and there is a lot more coverage such as:

• Novell Releases Cloud Manager
• Novell Aims to Manage Private Clouds



• Novell Cloud Manager Offers On-Demand Workload Provisioning
• Novell Looks to Solve Private Cloud Vendor Lock-in
• Novell Unveils Cloud Manager
• Novell Unveils Cloud Manager



• Novell Unveils Cloud Manager - Analyst Blog
• Novell joins crowded cloud platform market
• Open Clouds: Tilting at Windmills?
• Novell introduces Cloud Manager
• Novell launches cloud management for private cloud
• Novell launches cloud management for private cloud



• Novell intros cloud management platform



• Novell punts cloud control tool

Will the clouds save Novell in a way that Linux has not yet done? The company certainly hopes so. Today, the company is kicking out its Cloud Manager tool, which has been under development for more than a year.

How is reliance on proprietary software from a company which is allegedly being sold [1, 2] actually a reducer of lock-in? As we explained in the past, calling Fog Computing "private" under any situation is deceiving at best. Microsoft does that too. ⬆