RemotelyAnywhere offers Web-based access to host computers, embeds a full SSH server for Windows and allows desktop access via a Java-based multiplatform client. It also provides direct access to many system admin tools via an HTML-based interface.
Netline said its code, which is the basis of Novell/SUSE's OpenExchange offering, will be available under the General Public License this month. The software presents a "tremendous opportunity for VARs," Netline CEO Frank Hoberg said.
"It's all open standards. [Netline uses] the WebDAV standard interface," Hoberg said. "It's easy for VARS to integrate our product in their installations."
The server supports most standard POP and IMAP mail clients and can tie in to existing ERP systems, enabling VARs to integrate SAP or other systems to OpenExchange's address and calendar database, Hoberg said.
Gregg Rosenberg, CTO of RICIS, a Tinley Park, Ill.-based Novell and SUSE partner, said his company already has more than 1,000 SUSE OpenExchange implementations under its belt and expects to increase that number with the GPL version. About 340 of those implementations were users switching from Microsoft Exchange Server, he said.