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Novell Ships Open Enterprise Server 2 with NetWare Virtualization

Customers can run NetWare in a Xen paravirtualized mode on Linux,
By Virtualization News
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October 12, 2007 05:30 PM EDT
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Pinch me. Oh, my goodness, let me sit down, it's true. Novell has finally subordinated NetWare to Linux.

It's finally shipping Open Enterprise Server 2, which provides workgroup services entirely on a Linux kernel, a long-in-coming event.

Customers can run NetWare in a Xen paravirtualized mode on Linux, meaning they can have the latest hardware while clinging to their precious NetWare environment or move to Linux, which now has all of NetWare's famous networking, security and management.

Aside from NetWare virtualization, complements of SUSE 10, OES2 supports 64-bits (think x86 and x64) and features a new Dynamic Storage Technology that uses customer-defined policies to discriminate automatically between active and stale data and shifts it from fast disk arrays to tape as it ages.

OES2, priced at $159 for a single server license with one user, is available now as a standalone product and will come as part of Novell's Open Workgroup Suite in 30 days.

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Novell News Desk 10/12/07 12:41:06 PM EDT

Pinch me. Oh, my goodness, let me sit down, it's true. Novell has finally subordinated NetWare to Linux. It's finally shipping Open Enterprise Server 2, which provides workgroup services entirely on a Linux kernel, a long-in-coming event. Customers can run NetWare in a Xen paravirtualized mode on Linux, meaning they can have the latest hardware while clinging to their precious NetWare environment or move to Linux, which now has all of NetWare's famous networking, security and management.