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According to the company, Heystee will oversee both the business and technical cooperation components of the agreement to ensure Novell customers get the maximum benefit.

Heystee will ensure that the joint development work on virtualization, web services management and document formats, proceeds smoothly, and also that the distributions of SUSE Linux Enterprise Server support subscriptions by Microsoft does not hit any bumps.

Back to OES 2, which is dies for release some time in 2007. As Novell revealed at its BrainShare conference in March, while OES previously offered a choice of NetWare or SLES running the company’s networking services, Cypress only runs NetWare in virtual environments.

My colleague Timothy Prickett-Morgan got more details on OES 2 yesterday. The full details are here for ComputerWire subscribers, but here are the edited highlights:

“According to Troy Wild, product manager for OES at Novell, OES 2 will provide the same file system, iFolder, and iPrint services that OES 1 did, but will include other enhancements. The big one is the support for virtualized instances of NetWare 6.5 running on the Xen hypervisor. Some other NetWare services that didn't make it into OES 1, such as the archiving and versioning server and the DNS and DHCP capability provided by the eDirectory server, will be added with OES 2,” he writes.

“The updated OES will also include Kerberos authentication for Windows-based PCs and workstations hooked into OES through eDirectory or Active Directory links, and it will also support a 64-bit client for Windows Vista machines that want to access OES services.

“Another new feature, which has not yet been named, performs what Wild calls file lifecycle management. This feature will allow system administrators to make sure the right files are on the right storage device in the network. As an example, it would allow an admin to move MP3 files created by end users off of expensive storage area network arrays to cheaper storage on the network without denying users access to these files.

"OES 2 will also come with a full set of NetWare 6.5 CDs for customers who still want to use NetWare as it is. OES 2 will also snap into the Open Workgroup Suite, which Novell announced as a bundled offering in May 2006 to better compete against Microsoft's Windows and server stack. Open Workgroup Suite combines OES, its GroupWise groupware, its ZenWorks systems management tools, its SUSE Linux Desktop, and the Novell version of the OpenOffice office automation suite.”

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