[June 08, 2004] Versora Joins Novell PartnerNet for Technology Partners Program SANTA BARBARA, Calif. --(Business Wire)-- June 8, 2004 -- Versora Announced Today a Partnership with Novell Enabling Integration and Migration Solutions for Customers Looking to Move to Linux and Open Source Technologies Upon learning of Novell's acquisition of SUSE and Ximian, Versora knew it would be important to forge a relationship with the billion dollar enterprise technology company. This partnership provides channels for which Versora's products can be delivered to companies around the world. Integration of and migration to Linux and open source is one of the biggest challenges that face any company who is adopting open source software. Most industry analysts cite integration and migration costs as one of the main reasons companies have not yet made the organizational commitment to open source software. "Versora is extremely happy to partner with Novell due to their many years of enterprise success and their strong position as a leader in open source market," said Mike Sheffey, Versora CEO. "Seeing as 54% of CIOs predict that open source software will be their predominant technology by 2007, it is important for Versora to partner with large technology companies like Novell who have current relationships with enterprise CIO's. Novell is an ideal partner to help us deliver our solutions to the snowballing market of Linux and open source," added Sheffey. "Novell welcomes Versora as a technology partner," said Chris Cooper, Director of Developer Services for Novell. "Partners such as Versora, who ease the transition from proprietary software to open source solutions add to the value of Novell solutions for companies who want to adopt Linux." About Versora Versora is a leading provider of Windows to Linux migration solutions. Versora offers software and professional services that enable and accelerate enterprise Linux adoption. Some of the solutions that Versora offers are Linux mail and collaboration migration from Microsoft Exchange servers, Linux database migration from Microsoft SQL servers, and Apache web server migration from Microsoft IIS web servers. For more information about Versora, visit www.versora.com. [ Back To TMCnet.com's Homepage ]