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== Future ==
== Future ==
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At BrainShare 2010, Novell announced "SuperLumin 4.0 Proxy Cache as path forward for BorderManager customers."{{Citation needed|date=March 2010}} They also announced "extended BorderManager General Support for two years (through March 7, 2012)" to give customers "adequate time to make the move."

In the late summer of 2006 Novell announced, that there would be a BorderManger 3.9 release.<ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.novell.com/products/bordermanager/announcement.html| title= Updated Novell BorderManager Coming Q1 2007| accessdate= 2007-03-12}}</ref>
In the late summer of 2006 Novell announced, that there would be a BorderManger 3.9 release.<ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.novell.com/products/bordermanager/announcement.html| title= Updated Novell BorderManager Coming Q1 2007| accessdate= 2007-03-12}}</ref>


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At BrainShare 2010, Novell announced "SuperLumin 4.0 Proxy Cache as path forward for BorderManager customers."{{Citation needed|date=March 2010}} They also announced "extended BorderManager General Support for two years (through March 7, 2012)" to give customers "adequate time to make the move."
The future of the BorderManager product has been outlined in an interview given by Novell BorderManager product manager, Praveen G. <ref>[http://www.novell.com/communities/node/3036/interview-praveen-g-product-manager-novell-bordermanager Interview with Praveen G, Product Manager for Novell BorderManager | Novell User Communities<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> In that interview Praveen stated, "BorderManager customers who want forward proxy and transparent proxy with content filtering services on the Linux platform, with optional content filtering, should plan to upgrade to Novell Access Manager 4 (NAM 4), currently slated for release in 2009."


== Third-Party Filtering Solutions ==
== Third-Party Filtering Solutions ==

Revision as of 01:13, 13 April 2010

Novell BorderManager
Developer(s)Novell, Inc.
Initial releaseAugust 25, 1997
Stable release
3.9 SP2 / February 19, 2009 (2009-02-19)
PlatformNetWare
TypeNetwork Access Control/Network security
LicenseProprietary
Websitewww.novell.com/products/bordermanager

BorderManager is a multi purpose network security application developed by Novell, Inc. BorderManager is designed as a proxy server, firewall, and VPN access point. Novell has announced that migration to SuperLumin 4.0 Proxy Cache is "Novell's preferred firewall and proxy solution for NetWare customers upgrading to Novell Open Enterprise Server on Linux."

History

BorderManager was designed to run on top of the NetWare kernel and takes advantage of the fast file services that the NetWare kernel delivers. Aside from the more easily copied firewall and VPN access point services, Novell designed the proxy services to retrieve web data with a server to server connection rather than a client to server connection as all of the prior proxy servers on the market had done. This retrieval method along with NetWare's fast file IO and other proprietary code made BorderManager's proxy engine one of the fastest in existence.[1]

In 2003, Novell announced the successor product to NetWare: Open Enterprise Server (OES). First released in March 2005, OES completes the separation of the services traditionally associated with NetWare, i.e. file and print. This makes it possible for the customer to choose which NetWare or Linux kernel the services will run on.

At this time Novell all but announced the end of development for the NetWare kernel (numerous public and private statements that there is no 64-bit future for NetWare and that Linux is the path to 64-bit computing for OES).[2] To follow through on this migration path, Novell began porting all applications to Linux. The company began looking at alternate ways to deliver these same services, as firewall and VPN access point services of equivalent functionality are readily available in the free/open-source community and there are also basic proxy services as well (i.e. Squid). The desire to deliver a functional equivalent could not be done by a full software code port as much of the cache engine was sold as part of the Volera Excelerator and Novell holds a great desire to use or create open-source software for basic services such as this.

To solve the conundrum, Novell entered an agreement with Astaro to relabel Astaro Security Gateway and license it as Novell Security Manager. This relationship has apparently fallen on hard times, as Novell and Astaro have announced that effective with the next major release the product will not be rebranded.

Future

In the late summer of 2006 Novell announced, that there would be a BorderManger 3.9 release.[3]

At BrainShare 2010, Novell announced "SuperLumin 4.0 Proxy Cache as path forward for BorderManager customers."[citation needed] They also announced "extended BorderManager General Support for two years (through March 7, 2012)" to give customers "adequate time to make the move."

Third-Party Filtering Solutions

Third-party filtering solutions are available for Novell BorderManager, from the following companies:

Further reading

  • Pan, Laura Y. (1999). Novell's BorderManager Administrator's Handbook. Novell Press. ISBN 978-0-7645-4565-8.
  • Gaskin, James E. (1997). Intranetware BorderManager. Sybex Inc. ISBN 978-0-7821-2138-4.

References

  1. ^ "BorderManager FastCache". Novell. 1998-11-01. Retrieved 2010-03-24. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= and |date= (help)
  2. ^ "Good-bye NetWare, hello OES 2". Novell. 2007-03-19. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  3. ^ "Updated Novell BorderManager Coming Q1 2007". Retrieved 2007-03-12.
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