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Hence, it was but fitting that an upgrade to this package should be announced during the first SUSECON, the company's first annual conference as a standalone business unit after it was taken private last year.

SUSE Manager 1.7 was announced yesterday at the conference in Orlando, Florida; it enables the management of servers running either SUSE Linux Enterprise Server or Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

There are compliance improvements in the new release, such as OpenSCAP which offers a standardised approach to maintaining the security of business systems through patching, including a way of checking to see if security has been breached.

The new release supports the PostgreSQL database, in addition to Oracle 10g or 11g. It also supports the use of IPv6.

In part, SUSE Manager owes its existence to the open source Spacewalk project which Red Hat released to the public; Red Hat's own NetWork Satellite product is derived from the same codebase.

The writer is attending SUSECON as a guest of SUSE