WALTHAM, Mass., June 8 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Novell today
announced a broad range of product license agreements and special
offers designed to help Sun Microsystems identity management and
Solaris* customers upgrade to equivalent Novell® solutions. Novell
is also offering incentive programs for Sun partners to join the
Novell PartnerNet® channel community. As a result, Sun
customers and partners now have a financially compelling reason to
migrate their identity management and operating system platforms to
Novell.
The new Novell programs and offers address concerns raised by
recent news that Sun's product catalog, now owned by Oracle, will
be substantially scaled back. Additionally, Sun's largest customers
will now be routed through a direct support model, leaving Sun
partners and resellers in a bind.
"Oracle has left Sun customers and partners out in the cold,"
said Justin Steinman, vice president
of solution and product marketing at Novell. "Many Sun
customers are questioning the plans Oracle has for the former Sun
products. If Sun customers are concerned about the future of
Solaris, then they can now migrate to SUSE Linux Enterprise.
If Sun customers are concerned about the future roadmap for
Sun's identity management products, then they can now migrate to
Novell Identity Manager 4 – the only identity solution to manage
identities in physical, virtual and cloud environments. And
if you're a former Sun partner, then you may be interested in
establishing a new relationship with a company like Novell, who is
deeply committed to the partner channel."
Novell Identity and Security Offers
With these new offers, Sun customers with a perpetual license
can now swap their products with a Novell equivalent for free.
This means Sun customers can get Novell's award winning,
highly interoperable identity and security solutions for only the
cost of maintenance. The following license swaps are available:
- Sun Identity Manager customers receive Novell Identity Manager,
Novell Roles Based Provisioning Module and Novell Enterprise
Integration Module
- Sun Role Manager customers receive Novell Access Governance
Suite
- Sun Open SSO customers receive Novell Access Manager™
- Sun Directory Server EE customers receive Novell
eDirectory™
For more information, go to
http://www.novell.com/promo/ext/sun_offers.html
"The scalability and flexibility of Novell's identity and
security products allowed us to implement a solution to fit the
complex business requirements of our customers," said Bryan Rembold, consulting practice manager, GCA
Technology Services. "Novell solutions interface with a variety of
applications and can be deployed across a large and highly
distributed enterprise in a timeframe much faster than our
experience with other identity management products."
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server Offers
Novell is also offering special incentives to Sun* Solaris
customers to migrate to SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server, the
industry's leading operating system for mission-critical workloads
in physical, virtual and cloud environments. For a limited
time, Solaris customers that purchase SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
subscriptions can get free training designed for Solaris
administrators, unlimited virtual guest support and migration
assistance. Qualified customers can also receive free
Solaris-to-Linux migration assessments, as well as a trial version
of PlateSpin® Recon Inventory Edition - a tool to help analyze
their Solaris systems and determine the ideal migration plan.
For more information on the Solaris-to-Linux migration offer, go
to www.novell.com/solaris
Novell PartnerNet Offers
For Sun channel partners, Novell PartnerNet offers a robust
partner program focused on profitability and growth. Novell
PartnerNet has profit incentives such as automatic Gold Partner
membership status and support programs for migration to Novell
solutions. Additionally, the Novell PartnerNet offers a suite of
enablement materials to help Sun channel partners quickly acquire
Novell solution knowledge and expertise. For more information go
to: http://www.novell.com/communities/Sun_Swap
About Novell
Novell, Inc. (Nasdaq: NOVL), a leader in Intelligent Workload
Management, helps organizations securely deliver and manage
computing services across physical, virtual and cloud computing
environments. We help customers reduce the cost, complexity,
and risk associated with their IT systems through our solutions for
identity and security, systems management, collaboration and Linux
based operating platforms. With our infrastructure software and
ecosystem of partnerships, Novell integrates mixed IT environments,
allowing people and technology to work as one. For more
information, visit www.novell.com .
Novell, the Novell logo, the N logo, PlateSpin and SUSE are
registered trademarks, PartnerNet is a registered service mark, and
Access Manager and eDirectory are trademarks of Novell, Inc. in
the United States and other
countries. *All third-party trademarks are the property of
their respective owners.
SOURCE Novell, Inc.