[Leaplist] OES2 now 100% Linux

[Ray Brunkow]

http://www.linux-watch.com/news/NS9908188054.html

Some nice stuff coming out of the Novell camp.  Love this part about how 
the Navy is getting ready to save $200,000.00 by switching to OES2.

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Does it work? In a case study provided by Novell, the company pointed to 
U.S. NEXCOM (Navy Exchange Service Command), the headquarters for the 
worldwide Navy Exchange System that oversees 107 Navy Exchange 
facilities and its 344 stores worldwide, providing goods and services to 
active-duty military, retirees, reservists and their families. After 
determining Linux would provide the right open platform for its 
business, NEXCOM wanted to migrate while maintaining the familiar 
benefits of NetWare. NEXCOM chose OES 2, which brings all the 
networking, security and management services of NetWare onto SLES.

"With this system, we get the best of both worlds - all the benefits of 
NetWare with a Linux flavor," said Sean Zackman, field engineering 
manager at NEXCOM. "We are using Xen to virtualize many of our Microsoft 
Windows servers and are now moving everything we can to Linux."

Migrating to Open Enterprise Server has helped a small IT staff at 
NEXCOM manage a large and dispersed IT environment. Using Xen 
virtualization, NEXCOM already has consolidated 45 servers down to 10 
and plans to consolidate another 40 more by the end of the year for 
savings of more than $200,000. Moving to a single server in each of its 
locations also will reduce IT maintenance and administration. NEXCOM is 
using OES for file, print and the majority of its security services.

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Some great news in the world of Linux, Xen, and more.  Sadly with Novell 
in bed with Microsoft, we can not bank on Novell to take on MS with the 
FUD MS is spreading about IP and Linux again, still, more of.

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Raymond L. Brunkow
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