It’s one Net for Mac Users Too Novell BrainShare 2002 It’s one Net for Mac Users Too Chris Neal Director of Systems Engineering Novell EMEA cneal@novell.com IO181—It's one Net for Mac Users Too
Vision…one Net Mission A world where networks of all types—corporate and public, intranets, extranets, and the Internet—work together as one Net and securely connect employees, customers, suppliers, and partners across organizational boundaries Mission To solve complex business and technical challenges with Net business solutions that enable people, processes, and systems to work together and our customers to profit from the opportunities of a networked world
Agenda Three reasons why Novell Mac support is getting better A little history lesson What you can do today What you will be able to do soon What else might be possible Summary Question and answer
Reason #1 Macs are cool!
“one Net” = Internet Standards Reason #2 “one Net” = Internet Standards
Reason #3 Mac OS X Based on the Mach kernel from NeXT Essentially UNIX with a superb graphical interface Makes it easier to develop/port to
…And What About Micro$oft? Macintosh support is one area where Microsoft is way ahead of us MS Office v.X rocks
A Little History Lesson Novell BrainShare 2002 A Little History Lesson GroupWise® Client NetWare® for Macintosh Localtalk support Prosoft Engineering Mac client Current situation IO181—It's one Net for Mac Users Too
What You Can Do Today Native file access Portal services Novell BrainShare 2002 What You Can Do Today Native file access Portal services GroupWise® WebAccess iChain® DirXML™ IO181—It's one Net for Mac Users Too
What You Will Be Able to Do Soon Novell BrainShare 2002 What You Will Be Able to Do Soon iFolder™ iPrint OnDemand IO181—It's one Net for Mac Users Too
What Else Might Be Possible Novell BrainShare 2002 What Else Might Be Possible Novell eDirectory™ ZENworks® GroupWise Client IO181—It's one Net for Mac Users Too
Summary Three reasons to support the Mac What you can do today They’re cool one Net = Internet standards Mac OS X What you can do today Tomorrow What else is possible How can you help? Contact me with products desired and number of Mac seats—development will take place if the market potential is big enough