Editing NetWare (section)

=== Open Enterprise Server ===
{{Main|Novell Open Enterprise Server}}

==== 1.0 ====
In 2003, Novell announced the successor product to NetWare: [[Open Enterprise Server]] (OES). First released in March 2005, OES completes the separation of the services traditionally associated with NetWare (such as Directory Services, and file-and-print) from the platform underlying the delivery of those services. OES is essentially a set of applications (eDirectory, [[NetWare Core Protocol]] services, iPrint, etc.) that can run atop either a [[Linux]] or a NetWare kernel platform. Clustered OES implementations can even migrate services from Linux to NetWare and back again, making Novell one of the very few vendors to offer a multi-platform clustering solution.

Consequent to Novell's acquisitions of [[Ximian]] and the German Linux distributor [[SUSE S.A.|SuSE]], Novell moved away from NetWare and shifted its focus towards Linux. Marketing was focused on getting faithful NetWare users to move to the Linux platform for future releases.<ref name="Vaughan-Nichols_2006"/> The clearest indication of this direction was Novell's controversial decision to release Open Enterprise Server on Linux only, not NetWare. Novell later watered down this decision and stated that NetWare's 90 million users would be supported until at least 2015.<ref name="Galli_2006"/> Meanwhile, many former NetWare customers rejected the confusing mix of licensed software running on an [[Open-source software|open-source]] Linux operating system in favor of moving to complete Open Source solutions such as those offered by [[Red Hat]].<ref name="Bray_2005"/>

==== 2.0 ====
OES 2 was released on 8 October 2007. It includes NetWare&nbsp;6.5 SP7, which supports running as a paravirtualized guest inside the [[Xen]] hypervisor and new Linux based version using SLES10.
;New features include:

* [[64-bit computing|64-bit]] support
* Virtualization
* Dynamic Storage Technology, which provide Shadow Volumes
* Domain services for Windows (provided in OES&nbsp;2 service pack 1)