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OES is Novell's reaction to 2 things:
  • the increased significance of Linux and Open-source in the company strategy and the industry in general

  • the fact that it lost a lot of market share not because the customers were dissatisfied with the quality of its networking services (usually it was just the opposite), but mostly because these services ran almost exclusively on top of an OS that was narrowly specialized in its initial design and didn't get as strong support from ISVs as most of its competitors. Novell executives, as well as most analysts, expect that porting these services to an OS with growing popularity and better support from hardware and software vendors will give Novell a good opportunity to improve its business results.


OES was released in March 2005 and included NetWare 6.5 SP3 and SLES 9 SP1.

OES SP1, released in September 2005, was based on NetWare 6.5 SP4 and SLES 9 SP2.


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