[KLUG Members] Novell and Linux

[Alfredo Barros]

Hi Tony! I read about it.

Congratulation for your new baby!!!

Here,  it goes the article:


http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2003/0414novlinux.html

   Network World Fusion, 04/14/03

   Novell announced Monday at its annual BrainShare user conference that,
   as it extends the capabilities of its legacy NetWare operating system,
   it will also finally extend those capabilities, features and services
   to Linux.

   In the next 18 months, Novell will introduce NetWare 7.0, which will
   have both NetWare and Linux services and applications. The company
   will also consolidate many of the applications and services into
   NetWare 6.5, announced Monday, and into the 32/64-bit version of
   NetWare. NetWare 6.5 will ship this summer.

   While Novell declined to say which Linux distribution its future
   NetWare will use, the company did indicate that other products running
   on Linux are already being shown at BrainShare.


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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tony Gettig" <GettigAM@kalamazoo.k12.mi.us>
To: <members@kalamazoolinux.org>
Sent: Wednesday, May 07, 2003 3:44 PM
Subject: [KLUG Members] Novell and Linux


> I've been off the list for a couple of weeks. That pesky parenting
> thing. Yeah, cloned myself again. That makes 7 little network engineers
> to raise. Sorry if this topic has been covered already, but here's my
> $.02 anyway. :)
>
> At the annual NetWare homecoming event called Brainshare, Novell
> announced that NetWare version 7.0 will run on either the NetWare OR
> Linux kernel. Customers have the choice. What that means remains to be
> seen. NetWare 6.5 is in open beta right now. One online article I read
> said Novell is looking at 18 months from now for the release of NetWare
> 7.
>
> One of the things they've done is created Novell Forge. Yep, you
> guessed it, just like SourceForge, but all Novell. It's great to see
> they have 166 projects in there as of today, comprised of not only ports
> of common Unix utils but also new Novell specific projects. The
> difference now is much of it is being developed under the GPL.
>
> While I am ecstatic Novell is taking this radical approach to the
> future of their business, recreating something like SourceForge might
> not have been a great move. My initial thought is if they are going to
> embrace the open source model, then they should consider the methods and
> avenues that have helped Linux prosper, like Freshmeat and SourceForge.
> Why reinvent the wheel? Why create your own "club" for your flavor of
> open source?
>
> So the question in my mind is this: if it looks like Linux, smells like
> Linux, and tastes like Linux, why wouldn't I just run Linux and avoid
> the licensing hassle? My gut feeling is that the NetWare OS will be
> around but considerably less relevant. Their big push will be their
> eDirectory on Linux. Managing the information of thousands of objects
> (users, workstations, printers, volumes, filesystem ACL's, etc.) is
> pretty darned slick with their directory. Their cash lifeline will be
> their directory, not their OS.
>
> And THAT is where we all know Linux is headed...operating system
> domination. But not in the sense that we attribute to the empire of Bill
> the Gates. Maybe "domination" isn't the best choice of a word. How about
> "operating system freedom" instead? I know many people said this a few
> years ago, but the next few years are going to be very interesting to
> watch as Linux grows...even more!
>
> Tony Gettig
>
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