Novell Pulse and/or Google Wave??

One of the most anticipated releases (in Google Wave™ world anyhow) for 2010 will be Novell Pulse™. Which, they claim will work seamlessly with Google Wave™ so you, your colleagues and partners can get down to business in realtime.

If you are not familiar with the Novell Pulse™ product you should watch the video below:

Novell™, if you are not familiar, are the makers of SUSE Linux™, ZENWORKS ™ and…….big contributors and supporters of Open Office ™! That is a big deal. If they can get Open Office ™ working well in Pulse™ and if Google™ can get Google Apps working well in Google Wave™ and they are working together to get Pulse™ and Google Wave™ to “work seamlessly” then it will really be a big deal when it is finally announced. They did mention the first half of 2010 which coincides nicely with Google I/O 2010.

The interesting part about this is that Novell™ is a serious business provider. Moreover, their quote regarding security for Pulse in the press release is encouraging:

“Security and identity management remain top concerns for enterprise companies considering real-time, social solutions,” said Caroline Dangson, Research Analyst, Enterprise Collaboration and Social Solutions at IDC. “Novell has a proven record in security and identity management, which is an important strength it brings to its new collaboration platform, Novell Pulse. Novell’s interoperability with Google Wave is another interesting application of its new collaboration platform in supporting mixed IT environments and demonstrates Novell’s strategy toward real-time, social sharing and collaboration.”

Novell has decided that the business for them in the future will be collaborative business solutions. See the latest powerpoint presention on the subject given by Richard Lindstedt of Novell, Inc:

For me, however, it is not clear just how close these two are working together. I’m not clear at all how serious Google™ is about the business apps end of Google Wave™ or, are they just trying to make something that transplants Twitter™ and Facebook™ (fat chance of that, btw). The problem that Google™ will have with the business end of things is that Novell™, it seems, is going to have a running head start. Pulse™ is not trying to be anything but Google Wave™ for business, and, from the video above, I think they are clearly on the right track. Perhaps OpenOffice™ and Google Apps™availability in Google Wave™ will be simultaneous at I/O 10. Not sure how that benefits Novell™. So, you see…I am not convinced that these two are working very tightly together on the business apps side of the house. Perhaps they are only working together on Federation, but no further.

Regardless, for me Novell Pulse™ will be a much anticipated release. Hopefully I will be right about I/O 10…as you know I plan on attending and expect (or want) big Google Wave™ news. In their press release they state:

Novell Pulse will be generally available in the first half of 2010 in a cloud deployment, and with an on-premise deployment option in a subsequent release.

The on-premise appliance will be very big news. It will essentially be a Enterprise Wave appliance for your INTRANET. Very exciting.

Oh almost forgot…..Hello….Hello, Microsoft™ are you still out there….what are you doing in this space?

As always, please share your thoughts below. We love to hear your thoughts!

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