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Novell to Develop Cross-Platform Data Center Tools

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the say-that-ten-times-fast dept.

Anonymous Coward writes to tell us eWeek is reporting that Novell is currently working on a new suite of tools that will assist in the management of data centers across Windows, Unix, and Linux environments. From the article: "The tools also help users maximize server utilization by setting up a series of workload policies based on the business application resources required. The project, currently titled "The policy-driven adaptive data center," will leverage virtualization, identity management and resource management to deliver a flexible and adaptive data center."

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  1. This is a digital technicolor yawn by tinkertim · · Score: 3, Informative

    Or in layman's terms baud barf. This has already been done by several companies and exists as open source. OpenQRM is a good example of (almost) the exact thing Novell is going to do.

    IMHO, they're squatting on what's already done and regurgitating it as cutting edge emerging technology. But because they're huge, its news. I use this stuff daily and cross platform management is not rocket science.

    Wow, setup "roles" and "scenarios" and write scripts to change gears based on demand? Sorry but that's not anying 'novel', Novell. Ever heard of ssh key pairing? (sigh). Ever heard of low level portable C? (double sigh). The practice of centralizing control over many servers is as old as Slashdot itself.

    Perhaps they'll make things a little more intuitive. I'm not saying its a bad project, I'm saying market things for what they are and stop squatting on open source.

  2. Cross-platform development by wysiwia · · Score: 3, Informative

    If Novells means it serious they have to look into wyoGuide (http://wyoguide.sf.net/) for developing cross-platform binary applications and into Dojo toolkit (http://dojotoolkit.org/) for developing web applications. I'm quite sure these are the best way how to do cross-platform development. Besides this might lead to a new future where choosing any platform might not depend anymore on the availability of applications (see http://wyoguide.sf.net/papers/Cross-platform.html.

    For Linux fans read this LXer article (http://lxer.com/module/newswire/view/54009/index. html).

    O. Wyss

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    See http://wyoguide.sf.net/papers/Cross-platform.html
  3. Re:Me Too! by WilsonSD · · Score: 3, Informative
    If you'd like to see an example of this kind of thing working today you should check out Cassatt

    You can also check out this recent article in InformationWeek for an example of someone using it successfully.

    -Steve