Linux to star at Novell conference

摘要

Attendees heading to Novell's annual BrainShare customer confer-ence later this month should anticipate the company announcing a variety of products designed to flesh out its Linux strategy Having acquired Linux desktop vendor Ximian and the industry's No. 2 Linux vendor, SuSe, over the past year, Novell is expected to tighten integration between those companies' products and its own. "What you are probably going to see is [the company] bringing together some pieces of the acquisitions coupled with [Novell's] security identity management and Extend strategies," says Earl Perkins, a vice president at Meta Group. "They are trying to put together a vision that brings together the Linux server and desktop and their security and identity management play."