Novell has made Roger Levy, the head of its Open Platform Solutions (OPS) unit, SVP of strategic development and told him to focus on a cross-business strategy and the data center, end-user computing, and identity and security management markets.

Meanwhile, Markus Rex, who used to be the CTO of SUSE, will come off a sabbatical spent as CTO of the Linux Foundation and replace Levy as head of OPS.

Both will report to CTO Jeff Jaffe.