WALTHAM, Mass. – Aug. 26, 2008 – Novell today announced it has been positioned in the leaders quadrant of Gartner, Inc.'s, “Magic Quadrant for User Provisioning,” by Earl Perkins and Perry Carpenter, August 15, 2008. The Novell® portfolio of identity and security management solutions – which includes Novell Identity Manager, Novell Sentinel®, Novell Access ManagerTM and Novell SecureLogin – helps customers reduce deployment and administration costs, simplify complex provisioning, manage user roles more securely and enforce compliance with industry regulations.

Since September 1st GWAVA is the first Open Horizons Gold Partner and therefore GWAVA again supports the activities of the independent Open Horizons Community. "GWAVA is one of the leading Novell partners world wide. For us it is just consistent to support Novell and its communities as good as we can. So we are more than happy to partner with Open Horizons to be their first Gold Partner," notes Christian Heselhaus, GWAVA Marketing Director EMEA.

WALTHAM, Mass. – Aug. 25, 2008 – With a focus on helping organizations improve workforce productivity, Novell today announced the availability of the Novell® Teaming Starter Pack program, which includes 20 free user licenses. Novell Teaming is a flexible collaboration solution designed to help groups successfully work together, regardless of location. Available as an easy, pre-installed download with a quick start guide and tutorial videos, the Starter Pack is a risk-free way for organizations to try next generation collaboration tools and experience more productive and creative teamwork to drive better business results.

Open Horizons will be a sponsor at GWAVACon EMEA 2008. The biggest GroupWise, Teaming + Conferencing and ZENworks event in Europe will take place from the 18th to the 20th of October in Berlin. It will be one of several events worldwide to launch GroupWise 8, which is known as the Bonsai Release of GroupWise. If you would like to join GWAVACon, please register yourself as soon as possible. Already more then 125 people have registered for GWAVACon and the maximum capacity will be 200 attendees. Register here.

Want to improve productivity and cut costs? You can do both with Novell Open Workgroup Suite, now available with Novell Teaming included. It provides a secure, flexible and cost-effective IT infrastructure, a proven set of workgroup services and next-generation collaboration tools. Unlike a Windows-centric solution, our suite is flexible, interoperable and standards-based. See how we take on Microsoft Professional Desktop Platform and deliver comparable functionality for as much as 70 percent less. More information

We have just released 7.0.3 HP. We had planned to have Bonsai BETA 4 out by now, but we are still working on a few of the BETA 4 exit criteria. Things are looking good for June 30-July 15th. BETA 4 is currently our final planned authorized Bonsai BETA. The next BETA (BETA 5) will be PUBLIC!!!
 

I have no idea how this rumour/myth/urban legend started but it keeps coming around. In the last week I have been asked this question 3 times - there was even an article on it in the Belgian IT press late last year (I doubt that's the source, as I am sure the readership is not that large outside of Antwerp). The question is 'will Bonsai be supported on NetWare?' The answer is an absolute 'yes'.

This tool was created due to a posting on the Novell Support Forums, where a fellow admin by a mistake during a rename of an account by a mistake got a backslash in the account name As such, the account is stuck with that name, and can't be renamed back again.
This utility can rename any account. Note though, that it needs an eDirectory counterpart... As such, the GW Account that has to be renamed must have an object in eDirectory. Either graft, or associate if needed

 

In my last two postings, I introduced Novell’s future vision for an agile infrastructure to support computing and collaboration. I described the CIO motivation, eight use cases which make agility compelling, technology megatrends which make this possible, and the seven key technology areas which will allow the realization of this vision. These seven areas are: policy, identity, virtualization, Linux, orchestration, compliance and collaboration. In this posting, I will describe our roadmap for these seven areas.