Novell Chooses AppLabs

MUMBAI, India -- AppLabs, the world’s largest independent software testing company, today announced that its India center has been chosen by Novell to be a lead Novell Authorized Testing Center (NATC) for providing SUSE Linux and Novell NetWare YES certification testing in India.

Being in a varied IT environment era, along with a rapid expansion in the SUSE Linux market, this relationship between Novell and AppLabs provides exceptional access to all hardware and software vendors in India who desire to get their products certified for compatibility with Novell products.

Commenting on this relationship, Dipto Chakravarty, Vice President of Engineering for Novell, highlighted that, “Given the depth of AppLabs’ knowledge of Novell products and success achieved to date we expect to extend the NATC initiative with them to enable Novell's indirect routes to market for SUSE Linux as well as Sentinel, Identity Manager, and Access Manager products. We are working with AppLabs on several other initiatives, including hands-on training, to support our partners globally.”

“AppLabs is extremely excited about opening this center in India. AppLabs is proud to be an NATC in India as well as Utah, USA. We are currently working on expanding our support to Novell by opening more testing centers and other solution offerings worldwide” says Sashi Reddi, Chief Executive Officer of AppLabs.

AppLabs Technologies Pvt. Ltd.

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