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Your enterprise needs to be ready for anything. Now you can be more than ready, with SUSE Linux Enterprise from Novell. This enterprise-grade Linux delivers a complete open source platform for your mission-critical applications. So, whether you need a Linux solution with built-in virtualization, security and management tools, or a Linux solution that works with Microsoft Windows, SUSE Linux Enterprise is ready to get it done—desktop to data center.

The Linux Experience

SUSE® Linux Enterprise supports the most important workloads in the enterprise, and delivers UNIX-like performance and reliability for significantly less. When you purchase a subscription, you’re paying for the ability to run your mission-critical applications on the best-engineered, most interoperable platform—from the desktop to the data center.

That's just the start of what you get for the price of your subscription. Selecting SUSE Linux Enterprise as your platform also means that you now have access to industry-leading support and services—making your transition seamless and ensuring that your application deployments are running securely without interruption. This platform is backed by Novell's services infrastructure that includes its award-winning technical support, as well as its highly-regarded consulting and partner organizations.

As a SUSE Linux Enterprise customer you become part of an extensive ecosystem of hardware and software partners that includes Microsoft, SAP, and IBM. This means that you have access to joint support from Novell and Microsoft for your mixed operating environment, assurance that your mission-critical software applications are available to run on the platform, and flexibility in selecting which hardware architecture you choose to run SUSE Linux Enterprise.

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SUSE Linux Enterprise ISV Partner Program

The SUSE Linux Enterprise ISV Partner Program offers you a quick, easy, and efficient way to certify your application on the only Linux platform endorsed by Microsoft and SAP. And the only platform proven to be more than ready to run your customers’ mission-critical workloads from the desktop to the data center.

To get your application certified on SUSE Linux Enterprise, you can either choose our YES program, which includes kernel certification and complete support from Novell, or our Ready program, which enables you to certify your application independently.

Our dedicated ISV resource team of certification engineers provides you with application migration and porting services, including Mono®, for porting Microsoft .NET applications to SUSE Linux Enterprise, as well as software development kits for ISVs.

Once you are certified, you have access to our testing and technical teams, extensive training resources, and global IHV ecosystem.

If you are looking to grow your customer base, port your application to the fastest-growing Linux platform, SUSE Linux Enterprise.

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SUSE Appliance Program

The SUSE Appliance Program enable independent software vendors (ISVs) to create appliances combining their applications with the SUSE Linux Enterprise platform to simplify application deployment and support while dramatically reducing development costs and ease deployment of applications by customers.

SUSE Appliance Program is currently consisting of

An Early Adopter program for ISVs to give us feedback and help us develop the best answers to questions around alliances and the appliance program
"SUSE Linux Enterprise JeOS"or "just enough operating system" version of SUSE Linux Enterprise, which ISVs can use as a starting point for developing appliances.

The SUSE Appliance Program is the next step in the evolution of the SUSE Linux Enterprise platform and offers the innovation and flexibility ISV need to develop and bundle their applications in either physical or virtual environments.

We would like to encourage all ISVs to join our program, test the new version of SUSE Linux Enterprise, SUSE Linux Enterprise JeOS, and discuss questions with our experts.

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Open Source @ Novell

Open source is transforming the computing landscape. It is changing economic models and creating new enterprise dynamics. And Novell is leading the way with SUSE Linux Enterprise, the best-engineered, most interoperable platform for mission-critical computing—from the desktop to the data center.

Our collaboration in the open source community has been a driving factor behind much of our success. Some of Novell's biggest contributions to the community include our support of the openSUSE® project, the foundation of our distribution, and Greg Kroah-Hartman of Novell’s SUSE Labs to provide free open source drivers. In addition, Novell sponsors and contributes to the GNOME project and is a patron of KDE. We're involved in promoting open-document formats at multiple levels.

The Linux-HA project provides a high-availability (clustering) solution for Linux, which promotes reliability, availability and serviceability through a community development effort. We launched Bandit-project.org to drive cooperative work around an identity management framework. We also support standardization of data center management processes as well as integrated systems management for heterogeneous networks.

Those are only a few of the many projects Novell is actively participating in. Learn more about Open Source @ Novell and share innovation with us.

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Customer News

Sesame Workshop Welcomes Novell to the Neighborhood

By consolidating its Web server infrastructure using Xen virtualization on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, Sesame Workshop is lowering server hardware costs, increasing flexibility and enabling its data center to dynamically respond to the needs of its business.

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Product News

Novell ships SUSE Linux Enterprise 10 Service Pack 2

Novell announced the availability to customers worldwide of SUSE Linux Enterprise 10 Service Pack 2 (SP2), containing enhancements in virtualization, management, hardware enablement and interoperability.