[ale] ANNOUNCE: ALE-NE Meeting - Novell Embraces Linux

[Michael Still]

Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts - NorthEast September meeting notice

Join your fellow Linux enthusiasts for our regular monthly meeting!
Thursday September 4, 2003
7:00 PM
Edeltacom
300 Satellite Blvd

Please make sure to arrive with a picture ID or security can not permit
you to come in.

THIS MONTH:

Topic: Novell Embraces Linux

Speaker: Troy Keur

Presentation:
Novell embraces the emergence of Linux and open-source software as key
enabling technologies for enterprise solutions. Novell Nterprise Linux
Services is a crucial component of the Novell promise to deliver one
Net-a world without information boundaries. It lets you take advantage
of the open-source benefits of Linux combined with the powerful set of
enterprise services previously only available on NetWare®, including:

Personal File Management that lets your users' critical business data
securely follow them, no matter where they go or what machine they
happen to be using at the time.

Directory Services that strengthen enterprise security and decrease
management costs of cross-platform business systems.

Print Services that let users easily print from any location and reduce
help desk calls.

Internet Messaging and Calendaring that promote productive 
collaboration
and easily scale to match your organization's growth.

System Management for simplifying and reducing the costs of managing
your business system platforms.

Web Experience providing integrated access to customers, employees and
partners, anytime, anywhere.

In response to business customers' wants and needs, Novell becomes the
first major software vendor to deliver a comprehensive set of Linux
System Base compliant network enterprise services that run on all of 
the
top Linux platforms, including Red Hat Enterprise Linux and SuSE Linux.

Backed by the entire Novell ecosystem including full customer support,
education, developer support, certification and more, Novell Nterprise
Linux Services gives customers a compelling new data center offering
that has the same level of security, sophistication and reliability
provided by the NetWare platform. With this move, Novell provides
services on the fastest growing platform in the market today. This
addition to our services offerings on traditional platforms gives
customers choice and flexibility to address their complex deployment
requirements.

Novell Nterprise Linux Services provides a set of open, cross-platform
services that improve communication, simplify and automate network
management, and allow workers to be productive regardless of who they
are, where they are or what time of day it happens to be. It offers a
compelling new choice for businesses that want the benefits of a fully
supported Linux platform. It gives existing Novell customers the option
to maintain their investment in NetWare, move to Linux or run their
business-critical applications on both NetWare and Linux going forward.

Ximian -

Novell, Inc. recently also acquired privately held Ximian® of Boston,
Mass., the leading provider of desktop and server solutions that enable
enterprise Linux adoption. This acquisition expands Novell's capacity 
to
provide flexible information solutions to customers worldwide.

The acquisition of Ximian expands Novell's ability to support Linux
solutions as the company adds best-of-breed Linux desktop, groupware 
and
management technologies, and welcomes several of the open source
community's leading visionaries to the Novell® team and a strong core 
of
Linux developers into the Novell fold.

Novell gains, and will carry forward, two key Linux market initiatives
through Ximian that reinforce Novell's commitment to the open source
community: GNOME, a project to provide a full-featured Linux desktop,
and Mono, designed to allow applications developed using Microsoft .NET
to run on Linux, UNIX*, Windows* and other platforms. The combination 
of
Novell's network and infrastructure services with Ximian's Linux
solutions provides compelling new value to customers leveraging the
power of open source technologies.

Background: Troy Keur is Technical Director, Southeastern Region for 
Novell
For more info about ALE, visit our web page: http://www.ale.org/ For
directions to Edeltacom http://www.ale.org/ne-directions.shtml Meeting
Format * Introduction and announcements * Presentation by the month's
speaker * Switchboard - free form Linux Q&A session * Door prize
drawings (if we have any) * Wrapup If you would like to give a talk, or
have a topic which you think would make a great talk, email
admin at ale.org . Directions:

300 Satellite Blvd Suwanee, GA 30024

Travel North on Interstate 85 Follow Exit Signs to Exit 111 Suwanee; 
Get
off on Exit 111.

Take a Left on Lawrenceville-Suwanee Rd; Stay on Lawrenceville-Suwanee
Road until you get to Satellite Blvd;

Take a left on Satellite Blvd. The Data Center is located on the left
hand side of Satellite Blvd., address 300 Satellite Blvd., 
approximately
1/4 mile once you make the turn on Satellite.

If you go past McGinnis Ferry Rd/Burnette Rd. you have gone too far.



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