Novell starts talking SLES 11 (eWeek) [LWN.net]

eWeek reports on Novell's plans for SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11, as discussed at the company's BrainShare 2008 conference. "The technical areas of primary focus will be the mission-critical data center, the tools to allow Unix-to-Linux migration, green IT, and continued work on the Linux desktop, [CTO Jeff] Jaffe said. On the mission-critical data center front, SLES 11 will include automated and assisted self-healing capabilities, including single-node clusters and automated hardware failure detection, he said."

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Novell starts talking SLES 11 (eWeek)

Posted Mar 18, 2008 20:48 UTC (Tue) by danielhedblom (subscriber, #47307) [Link]

Its sad to see they dont seem to work on the single worst part of SLES, package management. I
manage a fair share of SLES boxes and constantly hit my head when it comes to collisions,
updates and upgrades. SLES would really rock if it could handle dependancies correctly like
debian or redhat.

Novell starts talking SLES 11 (eWeek)

Posted Mar 18, 2008 21:11 UTC (Tue) by lmb (subscriber, #39048) [Link]

Of course SLE11 will have the improved update stacks from openSUSE by then as well - you can
already preview the current development in FACTORY, or openSUSE 11.0 alphas.

Novell starts talking SLES 11 (eWeek)

Posted Mar 18, 2008 21:24 UTC (Tue) by apokryphos (subscriber, #42130) [Link]

See Fast Package Management for a summary of the changes that are being worked on there and that will be coming.

Novell starts talking SLES 11 (eWeek)

Posted Mar 19, 2008 1:33 UTC (Wed) by rahvin (subscriber, #16953) [Link]

Baring the microsoft deal Novell really has a great product offering for small to medium sized
businesses. The Novell open workgroup server includes Netware on Linux, Groupwise and Zenworks
software deployment software, SUSE desktop and Open Office all with support and comes in at
$80 a seat. That's 10% of the cost of deploying the Microsoft equivalent cost savings. It's
actually surprising that I haven't seen more Novell deployments just on the cost factor. I
know groupwise isn't Exchange+outlook but it's almost as good. I'm actually considering
deploying it at home Just for some of the managed benefits that netware provides.

Are any of you seeing new Novell deployments as a result of their product offerings and price?

Novell starts talking SLES 11 (eWeek)

Posted Mar 19, 2008 6:53 UTC (Wed) by danielhedblom (subscriber, #47307) [Link]

"Are any of you seeing new Novell deployments as a result of their product offerings and
price?"

Actually no but i suspect it has more to do with third party applications in sweden only
having AD support. If/when novell ships their samba with full AD support i think many people
will think about it again.

Novell starts talking SLES 11 (eWeek)

Posted Mar 20, 2008 10:29 UTC (Thu) by msmeissn (subscriber, #13641) [Link]

We have one big SLED customer with Active Directory integration, namely 
PSA Peugot. They have pretty much shaken out all the bugs we still had
in this area and have Linux Laptops in their Windows environment...

(If this is what you mean ;)

Ciao, Marcus