"Novell announced [Friday] that it was moving up the timetable by 10 months on its new Open Enterprise Server (OES). The new server, due out in February, will include Novell's NetWare operating systems, as well as its SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 9.
"OES also will include a new common management interface that promises to make migration and management easier for both Linux and Netware. According to Charlie Ungashick, director for product marketing and management for Linux, Open Source and Platform Services at Novell, Netware customers have been asking for this type of server..."