Como se combate o populismo? "Com eleições", responde Fukuyama

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Novell: A Player or Follower in Open Source Applistructure?
Wednesday, April 06, 2005 J. Paul Kirby

Applistructure allows customers to realize a world where resources are devoted to strategic improvements and tactical infrastructure fades into the background. Application vendors will take most of the lead, but other vendors with comprehensive infrastructure platforms have the power to forge coalitions that turn a long haul into a timely reality. One such company who can bring an open source twist to applistructure is Novell.

The Bottom Line: Novell has a shot at becoming a significant applistructure vendor if it builds on its success with ISV partnerships and focuses on a comprehensive infrastructure platform by aggressively differentiating itself from Red Hat, improving the market share of SuSE, and completing the applistructure stack.

What It Means: There are many choices to be made in the quest for applistructure. Application vendors such as Oracle and SAP will seek a tight coupling with infrastructure technology provided by themselves or through loyal partners. Vendors of infrastructure piece-parts will seek safe harbor under one of the application vendors.

But some vendors stand in the middle able to offer a full infrastructure portfolio, but with no desire to enter the packaged application market themselves. These are the wildcards able to forge coalitions with application vendors to complete an offering. IBM is the most prominent wildcard, but another vendor with potential is Novell.

Novell’s applistructure opportunity begins with the operating system. Application vendors have three plausible options: Windows, UNIX, and Linux. But as noted in the AMR Research Report “Linux: Here To Stay and Not Just About Cost,” December 2004, the days of significant UNIX growth are nearing their end with both Windows and Linux already offering a lower price and catching up quickly on technical functionality.

If Microsoft begins to show success at selling packaged applications in the enterprise market, Oracle and SAP will be more cautious about Windows. Linux becomes the next best option, which brings in the two providers of enterprise-grade Linux: Novell and Red Hat.

Novell shows more applistructure promise than Red Hat

Although both Red Hat and Novell are Linux vendors, that’s about all they have in common. Red Hat’s ambition is to provide nothing but open source software, focusing on the operating system and piece-parts that closely surround it. It’s a purist vision in a world of compromises.

Novell, on the other hand, mixes and matches between open and closed source software, and focuses on providing a comprehensive platform including system and resource management, identity-based computing, clustering, and middleware Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) bundling. Novell is also a plainly mature software vendor. It understands channel sales, tailors its message to specific industries, collaborates well with partners, and has a global network of support and consulting resources. Red Hat is relatively immature in these areas.

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upgrades NOVELL to Mkt Outperform.

Aqui vai o chart de hoje !!!!

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e o nasdaq a cair, sobe já pela 4 vez consecutiva e quebra a LTD que a mantinha em queda desde Novembro.
Bem, agora um fecho acima dos 6.26 e próxima resistência 7.14.
Haver vamos as próximas noticias do Suse Linux.

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ovell has Linux on the brain

Phil Hochmuth, Computerworld

31/03/2005 15:51:13

Novell at its annual conference last week unveiled plans for several Linux-based enterprise management tools. The announcements - a network management suite, an office productivity server and GroupWise on Linux - are further examples Novell's deeper integration of its SuSE Linux platform with Novell's previous enterprise products.

BrainShare, Novell's annual shindig in Utah, was once the pinnacle NetWare event of the year. But since Novell's plunge into Linux with its SuSE and Ximinan acquisitions, Linux news has begun to grab more attention at the show.

Novell announced its ZENworks 7 Suite software, which allows system administrators to manage a network of Windows-based client machines with a SuSE Linux server. This software will allow administrators to distribute applications and other software to Windows PCs from a SuSE Linux server. Also, users will be able to store an entire copy of a corporate-standard Windows PC operating system on a SuSE/ZENworks 7 and download that image to machines as necessary.

On the productivity front, Novell announced its Small Business Suite for Linux, which packages network security and management software onto a SuSE Linux server. A SuSE desktop Linux package is also included in the product, which is aimed at setting up an IT infrastructure in a small company very quickly.

Novell said it will also bundle its GroupWise e-mail and collaboration server with SuSE Linux Enterprise Server. This will allow both Windows and Linux PCs to access a centralized e-mail, calendaring and project collaboration suite.

The SuSE-based ZENworks 7 Suite will be available in the second quarter with pricing to be announced at the time of the release. GroupWise on SuSE Linux will also be released this summer with pricing to be determined. The Small Business Suite for Linux will be available this month starting at $475 per user.

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Europe's Largest Railway Selects Novell's SUSE LINUX for Large Scale Server Migration
Wednesday March 30, 4:13 pm ET
- Consolidation cuts costs while improving IT operating efficiencies


WALTHAM, Mass., March 30 /PRNewswire/ -- Deutsche Bahn, Germany's national railway company, has selected Linux* as its strategic server platform. Currently DB Systems, the IT service provider of Deutsche Bahn, is running more than 300 Intel-based servers with critical business applications on Novell's SUSE® LINUX Enterprise Server. Applications like Lotus Notes* have now been migrated to the IBM* mainframe platform also using SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server. DB Systems expects significant cost savings, more vendor independence and integration advantages throughout the roll-out period and beyond.
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"We had to choose a system that would offer us the flexibility, security and reliability required to maintain a high level of services to our customers. We are confident that a Linux-based system can offer us this more cost effectively than any proprietary solutions," said Detlef Exner, director of IT Production for DB Systems.

Following that strategy, DB Systems evaluated several options and selected SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server due to its scalable, high-performance foundation for secure enterprise computing. Exner adds, "Novell's ability to offer extensive support for SUSE LINUX and its co-operation with many hardware and software vendors has given us additional confidence to use this also for our mission-critical tasks."

Key deciding factors were the ability to run the SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server software on all major hardware platforms, the easy access to German speaking technical Novell staff for 3rd level support issues and the advanced system management tools within the solution, which help to reduce administration and maintenance expenditures.

"Its open management capabilities combined with a reliable release cycle and a complete enterprise software ecosystem for Linux including technical support, training, consulting and indemnification, make SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server a good choice," said Ingo Schwarzer, senior manager for Data Center solutions and architecture for DB Systems.

Richard Seibt, president, Novell Europe, Middle East and Africa, said, "Novell has built its support philosophy around standing behind customers rather than providing point support for a single technology or product. Our experience in supporting Linux interoperability with other systems and applications was essential for the success of this project."

DB Systems leveraged Novell's Linux skills to evaluate the viability and cost advantages of a Linux solution. This enabled DB Systems to develop a deployment framework, which included the migration and deployment of Deutsche Bahn's key applications in a three-phased project.

Phase one included migrating 55,000 Lotus Notes users to SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server running on an IBM eServer zSeries* 990 mainframe, as well as the migration of a mission-critical train timetabling system from UNIX* to SUSE LINUX. Roughly half of the targeted servers have already been migrated successfully, and the next phase, currently being implemented, includes the migration of SAP services to SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server. The last phase, expected to be completed by the end of 2005, includes the migration of DB Systems Web servers and remaining network infrastructure servers, including database and application servers.

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Open source software 'will rule the enterprise'

Major EC report outlines biometrics challenge ahead

Guidelines needed for internet usage

Open source to dominate enterprise by 2007

BoI shuts fake site after phishing attack




24.03.2005 - Among the various computing and software giants that dominate the global IT sector, there can be no vendor that has nailed Linux more firmly to its mast than network software firm Novell. While most players such as IBM and Hewlett-Packard cautiously opt to keep a foot in either the Linux or Windows camps, Windows is increasingly appearing to be a smaller feature of the Novell portfolio.

As the company bangs out an increasing range of Linux-driven products that transcend not only the desktop world —the company’s recent Linux Desktop 9 for enterprise users and SUSE Linux Professional include as well as the computer’s operating system, a range of office applications and productivity software such as Firefox and Open Office — but entire data management structures of the SME and the corporate data centre customer. At the company’s annual BrainShare event held this week amidst the surreal desert and alpine fusion of Utah’s Salt Lake City, Novell’s chairman and CEO Jack Messman devoted his company further to the Linux cause by advocating a new standard of IT security — identity-driven computing —with Linux at its core.

There is no question that Messman is playing a high stakes game but this is a man who handles Novell like a well-oiled machine: it goes where he wants it to go. Messman was CEO at Novell during its heyday in the Eighties and early Nineties when its network software architecture set the standard for network computing. However, during Messman’s absence in the mid-to-late Nineties, Novell began to rest on the laurels of previous glories and ego took over. Amidst a period of aloofness and inertia Novell’s share of the networked world took a nosedive as rival technologies — namely Microsoft’s Exchange —became the de-facto standard for corporate networking.

Messman’s return to the helm in 2001 was calculated to reinvigorate the company and so far the strategy has worked. Novell and its partners’ embrace of open source is reminiscent of the single-minded vigour that brought the company to prominence during the early Nineties. A year ago Novell’s partner community had created 230 products around open source. This year some 1,600 Novell partners are offering Linux-based products.

Citing IDC research, which projects that during the next few years Linux will grow at the server level by 25pc and at the desktop level by 40pc, Messman said that today’s companies believe that they need to deploy Linux if they want to stay competitive, save money and optimise production.

Messman also quoted a CIO magazine survey that revealed 53pc of all chief information officers (CIOs) stated that open source would be their dominant technology by 2007.

“A few years ago we predicted that 2004 would be the year of Linux,” Messman said at BrainShare. “Linux deployments worldwide grew 38pc between 2003 and 2004. Firms are embracing open source because it gives them the freedom to remove complexity and cost from managing IT.”

Pinning its cause further to the Linux mast, Messman went on to introduce a range of new products and strategies based on open source. Among these was the first end-to-end, server-to-desktop Linux solution for small businesses, Novell Linux Small Business Suite. Messman described the solution as a way of delivering big business benefits to firms on a small business budget.

However, one of the most significant revelations was the company’s unveiling of a new IT security strategy entitled Identity-Driven Computing. The strategy enables organisations to use open source standards such as Linux to design systems that adapt to the complex and dynamic nature of business by using identity information to define the interaction between users and technology assets ranging from PCs to servers to mobile phones and handheld computers.

Under the strategy, organisations can derive greater leverage from all their IT assets — servers, desktops, devices, applications and network infrastructure — by securing and managing the complete asset life cycle through policies, just as they would for users. Under this strategy the company unveiled two new modular platforms designed to secure and manage every aspect of the enterprise —applications services foundation (ASF) and identity services foundation (ISF).

Meta Group analyst Earl Perkins commented: “Novell’s identity-driven computing strategy takes the approach that complexity could be better managed if technologies were more adaptable and more fully leveraged business assets.

“The next formidable challenge for them and their competitors is integrating complex identity-driven services such as federation and virtualisation with specific application server platform environments and doing so in a modular, manageable and cost-effective way,” Perkins said.

Messman is unwavering in his confidence that open source is clearly the way to go, not only for Novell but the rest of the software industry too. Reminiscing on his return to Novell he recalls: “We had to make a change. Our market was declining by 12pc to 15pc per year. Customers were worried about our product roadmap and where Netware [Novell’s flagship software] would take them. Microsoft was not giving up any ground at the time. We recognised what Linux was going to do to software and made our decision and guess what — we are still competing with Microsoft today; we reversed the decline in Netware.

“We had a decision to make; put Netware on top of Linux and you lose old customers. However, by giving the customers the opportunity to switch server volume forward and back between Linux and Windows at the press of a button is making all the
difference.”

On the market opportunity that Linux currently represents, Messman had this to say: “The low-hanging fruit for Linux adoption is Unix. In the past businesses were using Unix on expensive hardware; for example, Sun Solaris on Sparc. By switching to Linux on an Intel server they are reducing their costs by 80pc.

“Ultimately we believe that Windows will be the low-hanging fruit for us because there’s no need for a licence on Linux,” Messman concluded, indicating that Novell has no intention of losing ground to Microsoft ever again.

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Esta é a minha acção predileta para 2005.

"Novell protege redes empresariais
De: Luísa Dâmaso
2005/03/30 08:25:49.


David Litwack, vice-presidente sénior e director-geral para a área de produtos de gestão de identidades da Novell

As ameaças vindas da Internet são o principal alvo da nova suite aplicacional

A Novell reforçou o seu portfolio de soluções de segurança. Baseada em Suse Linux, o Novell Security Manager é composto por seis aplicações de segurança de redes, que oferecem às empresas protecção contra as eventuais ameaças causadas por hackers, vírus, spam, intrusos e acessos não desejados. A ferramenta de protecção firewall controla o fluxo de tráfego no interior da organização, baseando-se em protocolos, fontes e destinos. A Virtual Private Network elimina a necessidade de complexas linhas dedicadas para utilizadores remotos, reduzindo os custos e protegendo a integridade dos dados trocados entre os vários elementos de uma companhia. A componente de protecção contra intrusos detecta e/ou bloqueia ataques na rede e permite aos administradores limitar actividades, tais como mensagens instantâneas, chat e redes P2P. Por sua vez, a aplicação de protecção contra vírus controla cerca de 100 mil vírus, utilizando métodos múltiplos que incluem heurísticas e comprovação de assinatura. A protecção contra spam bloqueia, põe em quarentena e gera alertas sobre correio suspeito de ser spam, utilizando regras seleccionadas, modelos e níveis críticos.

A solução Security Manager integra ainda um filtro de conteúdos que bloqueia a acessibilidade a sites Web não desejados, mediante a definição de políticas de acesso que podem ser desenhadas de acordo com as necessidades do cliente e dos diferentes utilizadores e grupos. O Security Manager assume-se como uma plataforma de segurança integrada, com actualizações automáticas, capaz de «evitar os custos e a perda de produtividade que, normalmente, estão associados a estes perigos», garantiu a Novell em comunicado de imprensa. O custos e o esforço de implementação e de gestão do software podem também ser minimizados, graças à plataforma de gestão comum baseada na Web e à ferramenta de instalação e de reporting. Esta solução faz parte da família de produtos Novell Nsure e reforça as vantagens colectivas do software de código aberto, chegando ao mercado através da Astaro um parceiro da Novell. Para o vice-presidente sénior da Novell e director-geral para a área de produtos de gestão de identidades, David Litwack, a Astaro «é um excelente parceiro e mantém o mesmo compromisso que nós quando se trata de apoiar a adopção do Linux na empresa». Por sua vez, o CEO da Astaro, Jan Hichert, considera que a liderança da Novell em Linux e segurança é o complemento «ideal» para a experiência da Astaro e para a sua liderança no sector das aplicações de software de segurança da rede. «Esperamos ajudar a Novell a sensibilizar ainda mais os seus clientes para a flexibilidade, rentabilidade e para o enorme conjunto de funcionalidades que caracterizam as infra-estruturas de TI baseadas nas plataformas Linux», avançou o mesmo responsável. O Novell Security Manager está disponível no mercado a um preço estimado de, aproximadamente, 235 euros para uma única licença de servidor mais 10 dispositivos. Além disso, estão disponíveis as licenças Gateway Server que suportam um maior número de dispositivos. "