Novell Continues Strong Momentum in Collabortion Market (Company Overview‪)‬

Novell, Waltham, Mass., has announced continued momentum and delivery of innovation to the collaboration market, with more than 9,500 customers purchasing or renewing Novell collaboration solutions in 2010. This past year, the company released significant new capabilities for Novell[R] GroupWise[R], its flagship e-mail and calendaring product, while shipping new technologies for enterprise social networking, conferencing, mobility, and file management. In 2011, Novell will have key product collaboration releases including the highly-anticipated general availability of Novell Vibe Cloud, its next-generation social collaboration product, which has more than 10,000 users in less than two months of beta availability. "Organizations are increasingly taking more of an integrated approach to their IT investments as they try to make sense of the groundswell of information available in and outside of the enterprise, and as many venture into the cloud," said Michael Fauscette, Group VP, Software Business Solutions, IDC. "Novell has a strong history of solving tough IT problems; they continue this tradition by offering a series of integrated solutions that address multiple facets of the challenges facing the enterprise today - collaboration, intelligent workload management and more, which is why the company has continued to be successful."