Data Center initiative: Data centers require security, availability, scalability, reliability and manageability, areas where Novell has been technically strong for years. Novell's data center initiative includes the delivery of new capabilities around application infrastructure, high availability and clustered storage, virtualization, systems management, and security. Recently announced cooperation with leading high-availability vendors Unisys, PolyServe (announced today at LinuxWorld) and SGI will play an important role in this initiative.

Open Enterprise Server: In the workgroup space, Novell's Open Enterprise Server delivers a secure, highly available suite of services that combines NetWare and SuSE LINUX to deliver proven file, print, management, collaboration and application services in an open environment.

EAL4+ Security Certification: Security remains at the top of the list of executive concerns for IT projects and is critical for the success of Linux in the data center. The achievement of EAL4+ by SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 9 reflects Novell's continuing commitment to, and leadership in, IT security.

The Hula Project: Reflecting Novell's ongoing commitment to making significant contributions to the open source community, the Hula project is a communication and collaboration project that provides a platform to foster innovation around the ways people find, share and coordinate information on the Internet. The Hula project is based on Novell? NetMail, whose core components Novell will open source (200,000 plus lines of code).