Freedom of movement, more flexible infrastructure, Open standard at work
Aiming at "open" system is a confident choice that an always growing number of companies are making. The aim is to make always more easier, ductile and performing its own IT infrastructures.
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Open standards, the keyword that keeps your company free. Free to exchange documents with everybody, free from the strategy changes of the vendors, free also to choose the supplier. In fact, besides restraining the licence cost, the "open" model removes any problem coming out from the abandonment, by the software house, of the development of the software bought, from the non renewal of the licence, from the new limitations of use introduced and from the non support.
With Open Source if the current supplier goes bankrupt or does not want to renew the contract, it will be enough to change supplier, maintaining the same software and your habits.
Aiming at open systems, you will also have the possibility to have the warranty of a bigger privacy concerning your business.
For example having at disposal the code of the programs we use, it is more difficult that some operations could be done or started without you notice them.
From a similar availability depends also the possibility to personalize every aspect of a new program. This means also to increase the flexibility of the whole system. It increases also the range of application possibilities of a program. You can also move an application to a new architecture, opening so new possibilities.
>>Operating systems
>>Operating systems
SuSE Linux Enterprise Server The operating system server of Novell, certified for all the IBM platforms, from the System x to the System i, from System p to System z. It sums up the flexibility of the Unix systems to the "openness" of the Linux world, offering a system of enterprise level, able to complete every kind of workload.
Arrived to edition nr. 10, the Linux distribution of Novell includes all the instruments and features of a modern Unix system:
- Clustering services such as heartbeat to monitor the services and clusterized file systems for the data sharing;
- Database services with MySQL and PostgreSQL optimised releases;
- Apache application server with PHP;
- the virtualisation support based on hypervisor Xen, another simplified solution for the virtualisation in the company;
- the AppArmor system for the application security, able to intercept and isolate tampering attempts, especially useful for delicate environments such as the company DMZ;
- improved integration with the Windows systems thanks to the agreements between Novell and Microsoft;
- the integrated support for the storage FC and iSCSI and the chance to transform the Linux server in small San thanks to the iSCSI target integrated into the operating system;
- the support guaranteed from a team of 900 people worldwide.
SuSE Linux Enterprise Desktop It is the desktop operating system based on Linux and optimised by Novell to be used as client desktop.
Available for Intel/AMD platforms at 32 or 64 bit, it is the ideal solution for projects of desktop optimisation and the optimisation of the related costs.
SuSE Linux Enterprise Desktop integrates the most recent novelties related to Linux desktop, from the 3D graphic hardware support to the Window manager optimised XGL and Compiz, from the integrated search engine for the PC documents to the client system management (Zenworks software installer). Integrated too are also the applications, among them OpenOffice, the open office suite furthermore optimised to be compatible with the Microsoft Office format.
>>IBM Open Client
That is the brand new product of IBM. A complete client with an open base.
Not only an operating system but also individual productivity with Lotus Symphony, message service and collaboration with Lotus Notes 8 for Linux and Lotus Sametime 8 for Linux.
IBM Open Client is oriented to the companies that want to optimise their client infrastructure building a secure and complete environment able to make available to the users all the necessary tools, saving at the same time resources, management and money. The application stack given by IBM in the open client is able to offer all the collaboration functionalities necessary to the users, going from e-mail to the company chat, from the individual productivity to the intranet and portal solution.
