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Brainshare Reports: NLD 10, Novell's Linux Switch

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the significance-thereof dept.

An anonymous reader submits "Computer World has an article about Novell Linux Desktop 10, which was just announced at Brainshare, that it plans to compete directly with Windows. One of the biggest things about NLD 10 is that it will have the desktop search engine Beagle as a feature." Also from Brainshare, Joe Barr writes on NewsForge about the significance of Novell's ongoing (multi-year) transition to Linux for all of its 6,000 desktops. Consultants and software sellers of all stripes won't soon run out of TCO arguments for the products they want to push, but Novell claims to have saved $900,000 last year in Microsoft license fees alone.

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  1. Beagle, Winfs, Spotlight?? by Adam+Avangelist · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Can anyone explain to me this hype of meta-data searching. I for one do not understand the benefits of it one bit. When I saw the Microsoft demonstration video of WinFS it did not seem revolutionary or impressive. I don't understand why we would need beagle either. And if beagle every does take off will it run on other Linux distributions.

    Personally I just store my files in My Documents folder and directory on Windows Xp and Linux respectfully; I have no need for a fancy search and when I do, find and Window's Find are adequate.

    1. Re:Beagle, Winfs, Spotlight?? by crazyvas · · Score: 5, Interesting

      Not everyone might be as organized as you are. Many people like to throw their files all in one folder, and spend time figuring out what they want. Meta-data searching will hopefully reduce the time to retrive. The major problem with Windows Find is that results are not indexed and cached. An analogy would be a user typing a word into google, and google *initiating* a web crawl to go through thousands and thousans of servers to find the word. That is simply inefficient if you search frequently. A utility as simple as "locate" or "slocate" has solved this problem under Unix for ages. After installing Google deskstop, I have used it several times, though I should add that I've used it much less than I thought I would.

  2. Novell may get us something we need: drivers. by jotaeleemeese · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Up to date, latest and greatest ones.

    I don't care if they are bnaries, the important think would be that any Linux user could get hold of one.

    With Novell, RH, Sun and IBM pushing for commercial Linux desktops we may get this more often thatn we currently do now.

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    IANAL but write like a drunk one.
  3. Re:Alone? by jericho4.0 · · Score: 4, Interesting
    The OP is pointing out that _any_ switch to linux would save you MS license fees, that's a given. The question is; Does the increased cost of training, support, and administration swallow that savings?

    IMHO, it's pretty clear that TCO is lower with a partial or total switch to linux. There are exeptions, like small businesses without IT resources, but by and large, IT costs go down.

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    "A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming, is not worth knowing" - Alan Perlis
  4. Novell rocks by LittleLebowskiUrbanA · · Score: 5, Interesting

    and I just heard from a guy working for Blackberry that they're working on making the Blackberry Enterprise Server work on Novell Groupwise Linux boxes. Oh happy day, when I can dump Exchange :)
    Thanks for talking the talk and walking the walk, Novell. IBM, when are you going to switch the corporate desktops?

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    This guy is way out there