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Thursday March 24, 12:11
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Novell and Tally join in common future
(by Helen Snow)
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Novell Inc., producer of the NetWare network server operating system, announced Wednesday it agreed to acquire Tally Systems Corp., a provider of information technology asset management services, in order to boost its Novell ZENworks systems management offering.
"Novell sees a need in the market for standards-based enterprise computing, and they’ve been fleshing out an offering one piece at a time," says Dan Kusnetzky, IDC VP for system software research. It means that Novell will arrange the provision of both the Linux operating system and IT management tools.
Trying to combine open-source and proprietary software, Novell faces a great challenge to compete with both Microsoft and Red Hat that represent extreme offering on the proprietary and open source software spectrum.
However, the main goal for Novell is to expand on the market providing the customers with access to Tally’s TS.Census License Compliance Suite and other products, by the time ZENworks 7 rolls out in June.
The acquisition is expected to close by the middle of April, although the transaction’s terms were not revealed.
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