Information technology solution provider Novell was awarded a five year AU$9.5 million contract by the Victorian government for the integration of the government departments' online directory service.
Red Hat has released the code to the directory server it acquired from Netscape and will start offering commercial support later this month.
The Victorian government announced today that IBM and Novell are the shortlisted tenderers for Project Rosetta following an initial scrutiny that took nearly five months.
Microsoft and Novell have extended their interoperability agreement for server operating systems.
Microsoft and Novell have opened a joint development lab in Cambridge, Massachusetts, which will focus on cross-platform interoperability.
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A AU$6 million integration project will soon give Victorian businesses easier access to the government departments they need. David Braue weighs in on one of Australia's largest single sign-on deployments.
David Thomas, ManageSoft's Asia Pacific director and David Lenz, sales and marketing director at Novell Asia-Pacific, go head to head on their respective offerings.
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Microsoft will begin selling its directory technology as a standalone product separate from the Windows operating system.
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