Linked by Ian Carder on Tue 12th Apr 2005 04:10 UTC
With some free time and some spare equipment lying around, I decided to give Novell's Open Enterprise Server an install. I work in a Netware environment, but given recent trends, I decided to try and drop OES on a fresh SuSE Enterprise install. This isn't a comprehensive review; rather it's just some comments while I was just playing around. It might give people a better idea what OES actually is.
Permalink for comment
To read all comments associated with this story, please click here.
To read all comments associated with this story, please click here.
OES is comparable to a windows AD solution as far as pricing is concerned I have evaluated both and have chose to build my enterprise on the OES platform. As far as functionality there ar things that are standard with OES that you don't get in your Windows AD environment. #1 iManager, Active directory requires command line management, or Admin console, #2 Server monitor built in imanager, #3 Virtual Office, is standard with OES. Sure Microsoft may have sharepoint but we are talking dollar for dollar OES vs Windows Enterprise server. I specify Winows Enterprise server because that is he version of Windows you have to use to compet with OES clustering and benefits. I have been a long time SUSE user and was concerned about the Novell. However they have merly taken the Netware services and gave the single sign-on and and management benefits to Linux that many against it have said were missing. So far I have 3 customers who have switched during the beta and are now running the final release. I have had only 2 complaints both due to iFolder which has been corrected with iFolder 3. All 3 customers were running AD all 3 have switched this is month 5 no downtime, no viruses, hacks!