Novell announced SUSE Studio has been granted the 2010 American Business Award for Best New Product or Service * Computer Hardware or Services. SUSE Studio is a free, Web‑based solution that allows users to quickly build complete software appliances in just minutes. SUSE Studio allows for mass customization and provides a bridge to the cloud, enabling software vendors and end users to build unique yet fully supported configurations of the operating system that run in physical, virtual and cloud environments.

Novell Conferencing helps organizations reduce travel costs by instantly sharing documents, web pages, whiteboards, audio and video—even recording meetings—without any participant software to install. Novell Conferencing is also the only solution that integrates with Novell GroupWise. While users are in their GroupWise mailbox, they can simply click on a Novell Messenger (formerly GroupWise Messenger) icon to schedule or instantly launch a web conference.

The open technology preview Novell announced at BrainShare U.S. has been extremely successful. As of April 19, Novell had 1,522 downloads and very productive discussion taking place in the Novell forums. As a reminder, the technology preview--as well as available supporting resources--can be found at http://www.novell.com/mobilitypreview.