Not entirely, just with respect to a new Linux management tool, called Nterprise Linux Services 1.0, that their putting out.

Apparently, Novell’s decided that Ximian’s Red Carpet (which Novell acquired last month when they bought that company) can do a better job than their own older tool.

This is hardly a ringing endorsement of your own product and, even if if is technically the better answer, I can’t help but wonder what kind of message the move will put out to the community in general. To me, it sounds sort of like them shooting themselves in the foot. Which is too bad, since Directory Services can use all of the help it can get against the technically inferior, but market-wise leader, mess that makes up Microsoft’s Active Directory. Granted knocking ZENworks doesn’t directly knock Directory Services, but I can’t really see how it can help it either…