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One of the most pressing issues you face today is the constant need to control IT costs. Where is the balance between controlling costs, ensuring security, enabling productivity, providing flexibility and avoiding vendor lock-in? Many executives see open source as an option to help control growing IT costs, but they have concerns that open source won't provide the secure, easy-to-manage environment they require. Most competitive solutions today don't leverage the benefits of open source and force you to adopt an all-or-nothing strategy. Novell offers a different approach. Novell Open Workgroup Suite provides an open, low-cost alternative to the Windows-centric product stack many perceive as their only option. This “mixed-source” solution combines the innovation and flexibility of the open source community with the engineering and support expertise you have come to expect from Novell. Features Novell Open Workgroup Suite provides a flexible and cost-effective IT infrastructure made up of proven, standards-based software. It features the following: BenefitsNovell Open Workgroup Suite includes the following benefits: - Openness—Novell Open Workgroup Suite provides core infrastructure and office-productivity software based on mixed source. It combines innovation from the open source world with the experience and global reach of Novell.
- Low Cost—Novell Open Workgroup Suite meets your infrastructure and productivity software requirements at a low-cost entry point. It can even eliminate one of the costliest portions of an IT budget—paying for Microsoft Office. (In fact, blending proven technology with all the benefits of open source, Novell Open Workgroup Suite provides a complete desktop-to-server solution—at up to 70 percent less than what you might be paying with Microsoft.) These factors represent significant value; seize your opportunity to install, integrate, operate and support more of what your users need.
- Choice—Novell Open Workgroup Suite provides an alternative to being locked into an all-or-nothing strategy. Re-evaluate the way you've been purchasing from Microsoft. You'll find that Novell Open Workgroup Suite provides a similar desktop-productivity environment (available in several deployment options) with the global support you expect.
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