[ QUOTE ] Novell today announced the availability of Novell Security Manager powered by Astaro, a complete network security solution containing six perimeter security applications with an integrated management platform. The SUSE LINUX-based soft appliance provides a comprehensive security infrastructure that protects businesses against security threats caused by hackers, viruses, worms, spam and intrusions.
[ QUOTE ] ....Security Manager becomes part of the Novell Nsure® family of identity and access management solutions, providing Linux customers with a comprehensive perimeter security product that is easy to configure and manage. Novell and Astaro are working together on a roadmap for future releases of the product....
[/ QUOTE ] .....and when Astaro becomes part of Novell ?!? [:S]
I disagree..for suse it has been great. Their market is expanding since now you can freely download their products and burn them instead of having to mess with an ftp install among other reasons.
[ QUOTE ] I disagree..for suse it has been great. Their market is expanding since now you can freely download their products and burn them instead of having to mess with an ftp install among other reasons.
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Which is not allowed for Kuba, Irak etc. Which seems to have been allowed before. This continues to make Linux a bit "non-free" even If I don not know if those countries have been interested in Suse before.
The objective of Open Source is a laudable one: to preclude a monopolization of standards as has happened before (and not just with companies like Microsoft; monoplization can even come from some standards bodies with their own personal agendas...).
At the same time, I think we should be able to figure out a way to make a lliving making good software, while leaving enough of an incentive for people to make polished products. Many OpenSource products have a brilliant base architecture, but when it comes to a man-hour investment in the interfaces, many leave something to be desired. To date, Konqueror has done a great job, but it's still missing much. The interfaces on OpenSource products tend to be an embarrassment; Astaro's, I believe, is not. Many of the distro providers who have some sort of revenue model also make interfaces that are attractive. If you have an interest in seeing better desktop software for OpenSource products that everybody can use (as opposed to just the CLI Druids), there will have to be some sort of revenue model. Or we can continue to sit around and wait on the whimful generosity of others, be they individuals or corporate.
And if somebody invests many hours in building an OpenSource product, then runs off to the private sector to give one company a leg up on its internals (and I am not saying all or even most OpenSource developers who come off projects and work for private sector companies are doing it for that reason...), how is that so much nobler than running a business that's a going concern with a proprietary software model, that makes products that help other people make a living???
For all the labor it takes, why can't a person make a living doing it??? Does it have to be all or nothing?
Though I think we should still vigilantly police OpenSource based companies for when they're not making some sort of useful free version of their product that is straightforward to install and really works...
I think this is great. I've been a huge Novell product user and follower since I was in high school. Their products are amazing and EXTREMELY capable. The company is great, they treat their employees well, their customers well, and it doesn't feel like they're run with greed. Now that they are starting to open up their source(NetMail anyone?) definetly shows something.
I've also just recently become an Astaro follower(almost a year now). I like their products and the company for mainly the same reasons, even though I'd like to see some come a little further. Showing Astaro and Novell products intermingle and work together, like at my place of work, is true beauty.
Does this also mean that Astaro will eventually go Novell?
Adding NDS/eDirectory domain authentication capability to ASL would be a good feature to have, rather than having to use LDAP to make the interconnect.
Simon, Novell looks like it's starting to go the way that MacOS went... just being a frontend on open source :-S true MacOS is parked atop a flavor of BSD but yea... :-) you know what I mean.
Simon, Novell looks like it's starting to go the way that MacOS went... just being a frontend on open source :-S true MacOS is parked atop a flavor of BSD but yea... :-) you know what I mean.