Novell has taken the Linux / Open Source since 2004, the year in which it bought Ximian, the company that built the Evolution mailclient and the developers of Mono, a .Net Framework for Linux, and SuSE Linux.

Since then Novell has been hard at work to Linux-ify their product portfolio, open source numerous products and build an enterprise support ecosystem worldwide.

•  Groupwise 7 : Enterprise Class Groupware
•  Identity manager 3  : THE number one identity management and Single Sign on solution
•  Zenworks : Resource management for heterogeneous networks
  
•  Open Enterprise Server : take Linux to the enterprise level, or take Netware to the Linux level 
•  Novell Linux Desktop : a manageable, stable desktop solution for the enterprise