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.
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IPX will likely be supported under the Netware kernel, but not the Linux kernel.
For all intents and purposes, OES/Netware seems to be Netware 6.5 (internally it's called Netware 6.5 SP3 ... go figure)
I highly doubt the license prohibits people to disclose information about Novell products they have purchased. If so, the reviewer, the folks at abend.org and Efnet #novell are in big trouble, and have been for some time in the latter two cases.
Regarding licensing, if you have upgrade protection for Netware you are entitled to OES/Netware under your current licensing agreement. The licensing is a bit different for SLES, however. Under the Netware licensing, you are able to deploy as many servers as you wish... it is licensed per user (for example, we have a 900 user licenses and we could deploy more servers than we have users if we wished) With SLES, you can deploy something like 10 servers for the first 100 user licenses you have, and 2 additional servers ever 100 user licenses beyond that. Needlessly confusing, in my opinion, but that's how it works.
Jim