SLES 11 at Sun and Red Hat targeted by Novell

Novell has announced six main “themes” for the release of Version 11 of SLES, which is not due until the middle of 2009. These themes include mission critical servers, virtualisation, interoperability, green IT, Unix migration and desktop Linux. This version will be available on appliances and integrated in devices.

Justin Steinman, director of Linux marketing at Novell, confirmed that the company considers Unix migration as a “huge growth opportunity and also expects Suse Linux to be adopted on many of the 700,000 servers currently running the Sun Solaris version of Unix. Though most of Novell’s Linux business comes in from servers, the company expects desktops to grow, and is doing deals to pre-load its software on PCs from Dell and Lenovo.
Novell has a joint development lab with Microsoft, one of the leading software companies in the world, and much of its code is produced side by side with Microsoft engineers. This and other such factors will facilitate Novell to continue to gain in market share on the enterprise leader Red Hat. The company picked up eight points of market share on Red Hat in fiscal 2007 and intends to pick up a lot more of market share this year too.

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