Novell was acquired by The Attachmate Group in April 2011. The portfolio of Novell has been distributed across three business units of the Attachmate Group. The SUSE portfolio of Linux solutions was made into a business unit that is now simply called SUSE. The Novell business unit will continue to market and sell the collaboration, endpoint management and File and Networking Services. Unlike most KuppingerCole Vendor Reports, this report does NOT provide an analysis of an entire vendor’s Identity and Security portfolio and services. This report covers a subset of what is now known as The Attachmate Group, the NetIQ business unit and then just the newly acquired technologies by The Attachmate Group which were the Novell Identity and Security technologies and now are part of the NetIQ portfolio. NetIQ also owns the Novell technologies for IT Operations Management, which included the Workload Management and Service Management capabilities, but this report does not cover them...
