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    IT Executives Cite Business Continuity, Risk Management and Interoperability Advantages of Microsoft-Novell Collaboration
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    With this offering, customers can elect to receive support for their existing operations for up to three years, and as part of this support, receive the IP peace of mind provided by Microsoft. "Novell's enterprise-grade Linux systems support offerings give IT executives immediate flexibility and control over their disparate Linux distributions without sacrifice" said Susan Heystee, vice president and general manager for Strategic Alliances at Novell. Full Article at RedOrbit
    Novell's enterprise-grade Linux systems support offerings give IT executives immediate flexibility and control over their disparate Linux distributions without sacrifice
    SOURCE: RedOrbit 3 weeks ago
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IT Executives Cite Business Continuity, Risk Management and Interoperability Advantages of Microsoft-Novell Collaboration
  1. When we chose to migrate from Red Hat to Novell's SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, we were looking for a highly available solution that would help minimize and ideally eliminate service interruptions, reduce maintenance and licensing costs, utilize our Windows Server investments, and make it possible to su...
    SOURCE: RedOrbit 3 weeks ago
  2. We are pleased to see Microsoft and Novell working together so closely to foster greater interoperability between their platforms. Having evaluated their virtualization solutions in our lab, we realize the benefit of such collaboration and would encourage other vendors to follow a similar model of engag...
    SOURCE: RedOrbit 3 weeks ago
  3. Novell's Expanded Support program for Red Hat will help us reduce costs immediately and optimize resources as we transition to SUSE Linux Enterprise Server. In addition to the intellectual property peace of mind it offers us, the improved interoperability enables us to keep more resources focused on our...
    SOURCE: RedOrbit 3 weeks ago
  4. In addition to support for legacy systems, we have also seen a growing number of organizations opt to use our Expanded Support service to help them press forward with plans to consolidate their Linux-based operations from Red Hat and other distributions onto SUSE Linux Enterprise Server.
    SOURCE: RedOrbit 3 weeks ago
  5. The relationship forged between Microsoft and Novell offers companies like ours -- who do, and will, run their operations in a mixed environment -- a tremendous benefit and increased efficiencies
    SOURCE: RedOrbit 3 weeks ago
  6. The alliance between Microsoft and Novell allowed us to deploy Windows Server and SUSE Linux Enterprise systems more easily, making our work processes more efficient and convenient. From a customer's perspective, it is a win-win situation for everyone if the end users can benefit from this relationship.
    SOURCE: RedOrbit 3 weeks ago
  7. Those organizations we work with closely are benefiting greatly via the streamlined management functionality, more effective cross-platform support, IP assurance and industry-specific solutions that these two vendors have devised to help us and our customers respond to diverse business challenges and he...
    SOURCE: RedOrbit 3 weeks ago
  8. As a result of standardizing our Linux infrastructure, and leveraging the Expanded Support offering from Novell, our systems are more cohesive, and we have been able to realize immediate cost reductions and improve our system reliability and stability.
    SOURCE: RedOrbit 3 weeks ago
  9. Forward-thinking companies are realizing the benefits of an interoperability collaboration designed to address the mixed-source realities we're facing today and will continue to face tomorrow
    SOURCE: RedOrbit 3 weeks ago
  10. For customers considering a dual-platform strategy with Windows Server and a widely used Linux server product, they will come to realize that the interoperability between Microsoft and Novell platforms helps offer a clear advantage in cost reduction ... As a long-standing customer of Microsoft using Win...
    SOURCE: RedOrbit 3 weeks ago

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