Novell News & Articles

Awards season rolls on and some familiar names are lined up in the many categories for the CODiEs (news, site), now in their 25th year.

In addition to CA's release of GRC Manager 2.5, the world of GRC is chock-full of partnerships and inquiries.

Groupwise 8 is now available via Novell. The release aims to boosts personal productivity with a customizable dashboard that allows users to interact with traditional and Web 2.0. tools, from e-mail to blogs. It also provides a flexible and reliable tool on a platform that is able to run on multiple servers and clients -- including Windows, Linux, Mac and the Web.

In an effort to steer businesses away from high costs and low flexibility that come with vendor lock-in, IBM opened LinuxWorld in San Francisco with the announcement of an integrated open collaboration client for Novell’s SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop.

Yesterday Novell announced the upcoming availability of Open Workgroup, the first workgroup suite for small businesses that provides flexy solutions based on “proven” open source-based software.

Bullies can only survive so long — and like some Marxist fantasia, particularly debauched, abusive bullies are known for awakening the revolutionary ire of those who, en masse, could easily spell tyranny’s downfall.

The context is set. Now for the major players. The diverse and ever-growing Linux community, newly united as The Linux Foundation, may be preparing an assault against longtime ruler Microsoft that is expected to sting - if not immediately, then with time.

Vignette has announced further integration of its flagship portal product (read Epicentric's acquired portal server) by adding new features supporting collaborative workspaces.

Ok, so this posting is a bit off topic, being largely focused on Vignette's new collaboration features, but the release also spends some time lauding the relative success of Vignette's [Epicentric] portal server in the market.

Why are we posting this here? Because there is a question begged (or perhaps just lingering in our minds) in the article. According to the cited research conducted by Morgan Stanley, the Vignette portal is #3 in implementations behind IBM and home-brewed solutions. The convergence and inter-relations between CMS and portals is a market fact these days. And again, IBM is number one in portals.

So here's the question: When is IBM going to get their CMS ducks in a row? The recent acquisition of Aptrix is (in our opinion) not the answer here. Atprix is Web CMS, but it is based on a Lotus Domino solution. The question lingers..

Read the Vignett press release.