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This further brings the question of what the Big Thing will be at BS-07. Last year it was SUSE 10. All. Over. The. Place. OES2 will be big for me, but I'm not convinced that Novell will give the next OES the same push it did for SLES 10. I'm a bit irked that they seem to be minimizing the file and print serving that made the company, but that's just business; file-servers don't make for profit anymore. On the other hand, I may be wrong.
The flag-ship products are SLES, GroupWise, Zen, and Identity Manager. IM is a big consulting driver, and still a hot technology, so that'll still get a big focus. Zen7 SP1 is recently enough out the door that SP2 or even a version 8 is probably not going to happen by BrainShare time. GroupWise 7 has been out a while now, but I haven't heard any mumblings about a v8 for that product.
On the other hand, openSUSE 10.2 is in Alpha right now. According to the roadmap 10.2 will release Devember 7th. What this means for SLES is unclear to me, but it could mean that beta builds of SLES 10.2 may be available at BrainShare. You can find a list of changes from 10.1 to 10.2 (for openSUSE, this isn't for SLES) here. The changes aren't terribly significant, just improvements to the XWindows environment (both Gnome and KDE), and related applications.
So no, I can't yet tell what the Big All Consuming Message will be. Eh. Time will tell.
Tags: novell, OES2
Please note that Open Enterprise Server services currently run on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9. New purchases of Open Enterprise Server will not include SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 until it officially becomes part of Open Enterprise Server in the next release, scheduled for mid-2007.Hmm. This tells me that what we'd be seeing at BrainShare '07 will be beta builds of OES2. March is not 'mid-2007'.
This further brings the question of what the Big Thing will be at BS-07. Last year it was SUSE 10. All. Over. The. Place. OES2 will be big for me, but I'm not convinced that Novell will give the next OES the same push it did for SLES 10. I'm a bit irked that they seem to be minimizing the file and print serving that made the company, but that's just business; file-servers don't make for profit anymore. On the other hand, I may be wrong.
The flag-ship products are SLES, GroupWise, Zen, and Identity Manager. IM is a big consulting driver, and still a hot technology, so that'll still get a big focus. Zen7 SP1 is recently enough out the door that SP2 or even a version 8 is probably not going to happen by BrainShare time. GroupWise 7 has been out a while now, but I haven't heard any mumblings about a v8 for that product.
On the other hand, openSUSE 10.2 is in Alpha right now. According to the roadmap 10.2 will release Devember 7th. What this means for SLES is unclear to me, but it could mean that beta builds of SLES 10.2 may be available at BrainShare. You can find a list of changes from 10.1 to 10.2 (for openSUSE, this isn't for SLES) here. The changes aren't terribly significant, just improvements to the XWindows environment (both Gnome and KDE), and related applications.
So no, I can't yet tell what the Big All Consuming Message will be. Eh. Time will tell.
Tags: novell, OES2