The announcement of the definitive agreement for Novell to purchase Managed Objects has been on the street for almost a week now. I’ve held back partly because of a pressing work engagement, but also to try and really think about this some on my own. I’ll admit I do not know much about Novell, its recent acquisitions, vision or strategy. What crosses my mind about Novell is their legacy and recent entrance into the world of open source Linux with SUSE and virtualization with ZENworks stuff.<\/p>\n
I’ve read through their website and see the very early beginnings of marketing and spin to play in the enterprise buzzword bingo game of datacenter automation, virtualization, Linux servers\/desktops, compliance, security and basic systems management. From what I see they have a long ways to go to fill in the gaps if one was to compare them to the mega product suites of the incumbent “big4” or “other6”.<\/p>\n
Some questions that initially come to my mind are:<\/p>\n
I hope to speak with some of my friends at MO in the near future as the dust settles to get a glimpse into the future vision and strategy. In any case, it’s all business and the MO products can and will continue to stand on their own and remain a viable option for many around the world. I look forward to developments here and within the field in competitive situations. There will no doubt be wins and losses for both of our companies!<\/p>\n
Other notable press and discussion available here:<\/p>\n
The announcement of the definitive agreement for Novell to purchase Managed Objects has been on the street for almost a week now. I’ve held back partly because of a pressing work engagement, but also to try and really think about this some on my own. I’ll admit I do not know much about Novell, its […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,116,26,75,640,84,101,92],"tags":[989,926,643,642,961,958,641,1031,979],"class_list":{"0":"post-1011","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-big4","7":"category-bsm","8":"category-business-service-management","9":"category-ma","10":"category-novell","11":"category-other6","12":"category-strategy","13":"category-value","14":"tag-bsm","15":"tag-business-service-management","16":"tag-datacenter-automation","17":"tag-industry","18":"tag-ma","19":"tag-managed-objects","20":"tag-market","21":"tag-novell","22":"tag-strategy"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dougmcclure.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dougmcclure.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dougmcclure.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dougmcclure.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dougmcclure.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1011"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dougmcclure.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1011\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1014,"href":"https:\/\/dougmcclure.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1011\/revisions\/1014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dougmcclure.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dougmcclure.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dougmcclure.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}