Novell on Wednesday (24th March 2009) launched SUSE Linux Enterprise 11, with the capability for policy-driven system management and enhancements to its high-availability clustering.
SLES 11 also will soon be certified to run in the Amazon EC2 cloud, Novell officials said.
Some of the highlights of the latest version of SLES 11 are;
- Runs .NET applications on Linux
This is achieved by the Mono extension and since SuSE is the leading Linux distribution for non-x86 machines, it means that .NET applications can run on the IBM system Z machines!
- Includes Moonlight
The Linux version of Microsoft’s Silverlight.
- Support for OOXML
Simply put, compatible with Microsoft Office’s native file. This was already available in SLED 10 but it is announced that they will ship it with OpenOffice.org Novell Edition.
There aren’t much significant updates from SLES 10 and most of the highlights of the announcement has to do with integrating with Microsoft seamlessly.
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