Chapter 1 Introduction to Open Enterprise Server

Novell’s Open Enterprise Server (OES) is a secure, highly available information platform that provides powerful networking, communication, collaboration, and application services in an open environment.

As network operating systems have increasingly become commodities, Novell has recognized that the way to provide value to its customers is not to lock them into a single technology foundation. To that end, OES incorporates the best of both open source and enterprise network operating systems—NetWare 6.5 and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9 (SLES)—with a common set of services, applications, and management tools.

Why Open Enterprise Server?

With the release of OES, organizations ...

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