Novell offers license swaps for Sun identity management products, deep discounts for Solaris migration, and partner enrollment incentives to Sun customers and partners

WALTHAM, Mass. – June 8, 2010 – Novell today announced a broad range of product license agreements and special offers designed to help Sun Microsystems identity management and Solaris* customers upgrade to equivalent Novell® solutions. Novell is also offering incentive programs for Sun partners to join the Novell PartnerNet® channel community. As a result, Sun customers and partners now have a financially compelling reason to migrate their identity management and operating system platforms to Novell.

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- Market leader for Linux on System z celebrates open source product innovations, customer and partner success

WALTHAM, Mass. -- June 7, 2010 -- In recognition of the 10 year anniversary of Linux* on IBM System z*, Novell today announced customer adoption, open source product innovation and ISV and partner support of SUSE(R) Linux Enterprise Server for IBM* System z. As the market leader for Linux on System z, Novell is the only operating system vendor to support Linux on IBM mainframe servers for its entire 10 year history and continues to capture market share with new customers and channel partners. Since 2000, when SUSE Linux Enterprise Server became the first commercially-available enterprise Linux distribution for IBM System z mainframes, Novell has delivered Linux-based mainframe solutions that customers across all industries can deploy to expand their critical applications and workloads.

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Novell Client 2 SP1 for Windows (IR2)
http://download.novell.com/Download?buildid=OsMcJFYBh54~

eDirectory 8.8 SP5 Patch4 for Linux & Unix
http://download.novell.com/Download?buildid=n8PWgAEctzY~

eDirectory 8.8 SP5 Patch4 for Windows
http://download.novell.com/Download?buildid=0ipWBdEvWy0~

eDirectory 8.8 SP5 Patch4 for NetWare
http://download.novell.com/Download?buildid=waQYN1ear5w~

PortaMail Live for Blackberry
http://www.novell.com/communities/node/11493/portamail-live-blackberry

GroupLink is proud to announce the latest release of everything HelpDesk, version 9.1. To kick-off this release GroupLink would like to invite you to a special webinar to be held on June 11, 2010.

In this webinar you will see what the latest release of everything HelpDesk can do for you and other help desk best practices. Also, by attending this webinar you will learn about the promotion for this latest release of buy one tech license, get one free.

Webinar Details:

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- PlateSpin solutions support both Windows and Linux operating systems; address server migration and disaster recovery needs of heterogeneous physical and virtual server environments

WALTHAM, Mass. -- June 1, 2010 -- Novell today announced new versions of three of its PlateSpin(R) Workload Management products - PlateSpin Migrate, PlateSpin Protect and PlateSpin Forge(R). These new versions support both Linux* and Windows*, making them the first virtualization management solutions to offer live migrations of workloads from anywhere to anywhere - physical to virtual, virtual to physical, and physical to physical - regardless of operating system platform. In addition, PlateSpin Forge and PlateSpin Protect now offer the industry's only consolidated disaster recovery solution for both Windows and Linux, including SUSE(R) Linux Enterprise from Novell.

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- Latest initiative targets High-Performance Computing, empowering customers to balance server workloads using both SUSE Linux Enterprise Server and Windows HPC Server for greater IT efficiency.

REDMOND, Wash., and WALTHAM, Mass. -- June 1, 2010 -- High-performance computing (HPC) continues to gain in popularity as businesses face increasing pressure to process data faster and with greater precision. Microsoft Corp. and Novell Inc., working in concert with third parties, are now making it easier for IT executives to take advantage of the benefits of supercomputing with a technology initiative developed in their joint Interoperability Lab based in Cambridge, Mass. The initiative brings value to the HPC market by helping customers realize greater IT infrastructure efficiency and subsequent cost savings. Today, Microsoft and Novell reported strong demand for their high-performance computing interoperability solution with 33 shared customers now deploying sophisticated server workload management across SUSE(R) Linux Enterprise Server and Windows HPC Server.

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Novell Support Advisor 2.0.1
http://download.novell.com/Download?buildid=uUzm1bJkXvc~

Novell Messenger 2.1 - Who knew this was actually getting an update?!?!?!
http://download.novell.com/Download?buildid=4UP5dT99Bh4~

ZENworks 7 Desktop Management Support Pack 1 Interim Release 4 Hot Patch 4
http://download.novell.com/Download?buildid=b0FmhHIbQgM~

ZENworks 7 Desktop Management on Linux Support Pack 1 Interim Release 4a Hot Patch 4
http://download.novell.com/Download?buildid=jLTLdhzeTUE~

ZENworks Imaging Driver Update for May 2010
http://download.novell.com/Download?buildid=gSlMqS4byfI~

HP Universal Print Driver Series 5.1 for iPrint
http://www.hp.com/go/upd

* openSUSE Build Service 2.0 Beta1 Release Brings New User Interface
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* Macquarie Maintains Bullish Stance on Novell (NOVL) Into Q2 Results
* Novell Positioned as a Leader in the for SI
* Patent applications from Utahns
* Interesting Options Volume for Novell Inc. (NOVL)
* Novell: This Linux OS Vendor Went to Market
* SUSE Linux users nervous as Novell explores options
* More Detail on the LA-Google Messaging Deal
* PDS Wins Novell Partner of the Year in End-User Computing Category
* Novell SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 Service Pack 1 Announced | Novell SUSE Linux ...
* Novell positioned as Magic Quadrant leader
* Want to buy a Linux company?
* Novell puts Identity Management into beta
* Benefits of upgrading to EDiscovery
* BlackBerry enterprise server archive, retention and compliancy
* .NET for iPad stretches to Google's Android
* Interview: Novell CEO Ron Hovsepian focuses on open partnerships ...
* Novell Pulse tweets into enterprise collaboration
* Novell demos fast app deployment on Windows 7

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By Rick Whiting, CRN 2:20 PM EDT Thu. May. 20, 2010 As many as 20 companies are interested in acquiring software vendor Novell (NSDQ:NOVL), and this week marks the deadline for potential buyers to submit bids, according to a published report.

But the auction to sell the company is expected to take awhile because a group of finalists will be chosen from the initial bids with final offers due sometime later, according to a story in The Wall Street Journal.

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