Comments on: Novell and Web Development?

By: Jeremy W.

Jeremy W. — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

There's actually a whole lot going on than what you're hitting at. I've been saving this for a day when my ideas are low though, and I'd hate for my readers not to read it first.

You're right that Novell could redefine things, I'm just not sure that the scope is big enough.

By: JFanolut

JFanolut — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Yes, Novell has all the tools you mention, but you left out their productivity tools designed exclusively for Web development applications – exteNd. The exteNd Composer IDE builds backend integrations that connect to over 20 legacy systems and exposes them as standard Web Services. And the exteNd Director IDE can consume those Web Services presenting them in custom portals and intranet applications.

By: bwarrene

bwarrene — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

[QUOTE=Anonymous]Yes, Novell has all the tools you mention, but you left out their productivity tools designed exclusively for Web development applications - exteNd. The exteNd Composer IDE builds backend integrations that connect to over 20 legacy systems and exposes them as standard Web Services. And the exteNd Director IDE can consume those Web Services presenting them in custom portals and intranet applications.[/QUOTE]

Excellent that you point that out....On that topic - Novell additionally has DirXML, which is part of their identity management framework. For larger web applications with large sets of users, DirXML can manage changes to users and syndicate this data between web apps and other servers to reduce manual user management. We leveraged this on a commercial open source app we took to market last year..

There are probably 20 columns and blog posts alone on Novell's tools and solutions, however, the Linux angle was very appealing to start with. I was a Novell 3 and 4.11 hack as well as operating in the Windows/Unix world and was fascinated when they acquired SUSE and Ximian. Like a phoenix rising from the ashes.....

By: verbal

verbal — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

I assume that when you say "Ported to Novell" you mean "Ported to Netware"-- Novell's a lot more than Netware by this point: groupware, resource management (Zenworks), web services (ExteNd, formerly known as Silverstream), user and identity management, security, etc. etc... all apps that run on Windows and on Netware-- as well as on Linux, nowadays.

And as a footnote, Evolution 1.5 and up also work with Groupwise (6.5 and up) for all the same features-- calendar, mail, addressbooks, etc. etc.

cheers,
verbal.