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Linux News : Dell Poweredge and Novell Suse Linux Build Servers.
Author: Humanx - Novell | Friday October 29, 2004
In their latest press release, Novell announces a closer relationship with Dell fusing the PowerEdge Servers and Suse Enterprise 9.
As the power of Novell has helped Suse Linux glide through the big 4 computer manufacturers, yet another press release has surfaced. Dell and Suse lock arms and deliver PowerEdge servers with Suse Linux installed.
Since its take over by Novell, Suse has been finding its way into businesses around the world. And with this latest agreement with Dell, Suse may just be (or becoming) one of the most widely distributed business versions of Linux today.
Why Suse? The team of Novell know the enterprise, it is what they do best and when they bought Suse, they came with a plan. Merge Novell and Suse creating the ultimate enterprise server, deliver Microsoft Exchange capable services, broaden the reach of Ximian which is a replacement for Outlook and finally give Microsoft Windows a kick in the pants with Suse Linux workstations.
The strategy seems to be working as more and more companies embrace Novell's strategy and the last of the big 4 locks arms with Novell.
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Posted on 29 Oct 2004
Dell and Novell have announced an agreement to offer Novell SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 9 certified on select Dell PowerEdge servers worldwide. This announcement provides Dell and Novell customers with more choice for fully-supported Linux platform deployments, and at the best value in the industry. Dell provides a single point of contact for customers' support needs; Dell Services will also assist customers throughout the lifecycle of their deployments.
Dell customers will be able to purchase Novell SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 9 with their single-and dual-processor PowerEdge servers. The agreement reinforces Dell and Novell's long-standing collaboration to provide customers with superior standards-based computing platforms, and extends this value and expertise to customers deploying SUSE LINUX for their business applications.
"Today's announcement marks an important expansion of Dell and Novell's long-standing industry relationship," said Al Gillen, research director, System Software, at IDC. "It provides Dell Linux customers more platform choice for fully supported operating systems, and gives Novell customers a new option for deploying Linux in their IT infrastructure."
Linda York, vice president of global alliances marketing in Dell's Product Group, said that SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 9 on Dell PowerEdge servers provides customers another robust and scalable enterprise platform to replace costly proprietary UNIX-based systems or to deploy Linux for the first time.
"This is another great example of Dell and Novell's ability to work together to move standards-based computing further into the data center," said York.
For $175 per single-CPU server annual maintenance subscription and $269 for a dual CPU subscription, Dell and Novell offer Linux customers additional choice on Dell's award-winning PowerEdge 1850, 2800 and 2850 servers. SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 9 is the first enterprise-class Linux server to leverage the performance, scalability and security features of the new Linux 2.6 kernel. This new platform is ideal for customers deploying Web farms, IT infrastructures and custom applications. The operating system will be bundled with the server at the time of purchase. A joint service agreement between the two companies provides customers with the same levels of award-winning support for SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 9 as all other operating systems.
Novell's acquisition of SUSE LINUX in January 2004 set the stage for this logical next step in the long-standing Dell and Novell relationship. "Dell's decision to collaborate with Novell on Linux is a vote of confidence in our Linux strategy and is great news for customers around the world," said David Patrick, vice president and general manager, Linux, Open Source and Platform Services at Novell. "Existing Novell customers get new options for their future hardware platform needs, while new customers gain a top-notch enterprise Linux offering on one of the most robust server platforms in the world, backed by Novell's global ecosystem of enterprise-level Linux services."
Novell SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 9 will be supported by Dell Services (www.dell.com/services), through a collaborative support agreement with Novell technical support that provides customers a single point of contact for all issues. This helps customers realize a more efficient, effective, scalable and productive enterprise environment. Customized Dell offerings streamline and integrate activities across the entire product lifecycle, such as system planning and design, implementation and training and support and disposal.
SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 9 will be available with Dell PowerEdge 1850, 2800 and 2850 servers worldwide in the fourth quarter. For more information on Dell/Novell solutions, services and tools, please visit: http://www.dell.com/novell.
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