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Novell on Tuesday launched a new open-source software project called Hula for servers handling e-mail, calendars and contact lists.

Hula is based on 200,000 lines of software from Novell's NetMail project, Chief Executive Jack Messman said during a keynote address at the LinuxWorld Conference and Expo here.