NetWare-Linux love child turned up to 11 - Register

Novell and SUSE Linux may technically be separate companies, but they are owned by the same Attachmate conglomerate and they still have to work together on specific products, such as Open Enterprise Server, which bolts NetWare print and file services to SUSE Linux Enterprise Server.

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In the wake of buying Novell for $2.2bn back in April , SUSE Linux was broken out as a separate division and its headquarters moved back to its Nuremburg, Germany, stomping grounds. The identity management, security, directory, NetWare support contracts, and Open Enterprise Server, an amalgam of NetWare services ported to run atop SLES, were kept in a separate Novell division headquartered in Provo, Utah, which is Novell's old stomping grounds. An alien visiting earth would never even know the $210m Novell acquisition of SUSE Linux occurred in November 2003 and would think that the two units had partnered to create a hybrid that in essence makes Linux look like NetWare.

NetWare-Linux love child turned up to 11 - Register