SuSE Linux and SAP Announce Global Technology Partnership
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*** SuSE Linux and SAP Announce Global Technology Partnership ***
SuSE Linux's Deployment in mySAP.com Environments is a Significant
Milestone for the Linux Community to Play in the SAP League
Nuremberg, Germany, September 30, 2002 - Today, SuSE Linux, the
international Open Source technology leader and solutions
provider, and SAP AG, the world's leading provider of e-business
solutions, announced a global technology partnership. SuSE is the
first Linux enterprise operating system to enable SAP clients
worldwide to run SAP's leading e-business applications on Linux
and the first Linux provider to become "SAP Global Technology
Partner".
"Meeting the rigorous standards of SAP and being one of its Global
Technology Partners is a significant milestone for SuSE. SuSE
creates solutions in which hardware, the SuSE Linux Enterprise
Server, and applications are perfectly tuned," said Boris Nalbach,
CTO of SuSE Linux.
"SuSE's large enterprise customers like Siemens Business Services
who run several mySAP Web Application Servers on SuSE Linux
Enterprise Server benefit from this partnership with SAP. We are
proud to announce that we brought SuSE Linux into the league with
SAP as a global technology partner," added Jürgen Geck, VP of
SuSE's Technology Partner Group.
SuSE Linux Enterprise Server for the 32-bit architecture, x86
hardware platform was awarded the status "generally available for
mySAP.com" last year. This partnership enables companies all over
the world to use mySAP.com on SuSE Linux Enterprise Server while
taking advantage of services and support from SAP. SuSE Linux
Enterprise Server is the ideal choice for SAP users for being
extremely effective as an application server and also as an
operating system for the database server and the SAP solutions.
Additionally, since May 2002, mySAP.com has been available on SuSE
Linux Enterprise Server for IBM eServer zSeries. This is the first
certified offer of a scalable and reliable e-business
collaborative 64-bit solution that can run in an LPAR (logical
partition) or on z/VM (virtual machine). Additionally, engineers
of both companies are working together to integrate mySAP.com into
the 64-bit Itanium Processor Family (IPF).
A demonstration of mySAP.com on the SuSE Linux Enterprise Server
will take place at SAP TechED 02 at the Congress Centrum Messe
Bremen September 30th to October 2nd.
*** Working with SAP
Global Technology Partners provide SAP and its customers with a
wide range of products to support mySAP.com technology. They are
leading global vendors of hardware, database, storage system,
network, and mobile computing technologyy, e.g. Compaq, Hewlett-
Packard, IBM, Intel, Microsoft, Oracle, Sun and others.
Key terms of the agreement include close technical cooperation
between the two companies, enabling the seamless integration of
mySAP.com on SuSE Linux Enterprise Server. With their commitment
to SAP and SuSE Linux customers, both companies continue to
strengthen the position of Linux as the strategic operating system
for mySAP.com customers.
*** About SuSE Linux Enterprise Server
SuSE Linux Enterprise Server comes with an unprecedented full-
service offer and unmatchable quality. The yearly release cycle of
SuSE Linux Enterprise Server ensures its customers long-term
investment security and helps them plan more effectively. In
addition to the yearly release, SuSE delivers patches and system
improvements continuously without disrupting its clients' planning
cycles. These maintenance services ensure the operating system is
persistently secure, up to date and stable.
Another feature of the SuSE Linux Enterprise Server is that all
system versions derive from one software build and one set of
source code. This consolidated approach has enabled SuSE to offer
SuSE Linux Enterprise Server on various hardware architectures as
well as consistent language support across all business-relevant
languages such as English, French, German, Japanese, Korean,
Portuguese or Spanish. To meet the different needs of various
customers in the enterprise segment, SuSE Linux Enterprise Server
supports all certified databases for mySAP.com, such as IBM DB2
Universal Database, Informix, Oracle and the SAP database.
More information on SuSE Linux Enterprise Server on mySAP.com
systems can be found at
http://www.suse.de/en/business/certifications/certified_software/-
sap/
*** About SuSE
SuSE Linux is one of the world's leading providers of products and
services, based on Linux operating system. In addition to the
operating system and application software for private customers,
SuSE offers software solutions and complete systems for the use of
Linux in the enterprise. SuSE supports enterprise customers with a
comprehensive range of qualified consulting, training, and support
services. Hosting the world's largest development team for Open
Source solutions, SuSE Linux shares its unique project and support
information online, in the largest existing Linux knowledge
database. For further information on SuSE, please visit
http://www.suse.de/en/
Press contact:
SuSE Linux AG
Martina Krahmer
Deutschherrnstr. 15-19
90429 Nuremberg
Germany
martina.krahmer@suse.de
Phone: +49-(0)911-74053507
