October 29, 2004 — (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Dell (dell.com) and Linux distributor Novell (novell.com) announced on Wednesday that they have completed an agreement to offer Novell SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 9 on select Dell PowerEdge servers.
SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 9, the first enterprise-class Linux server to leverage the new Linux 2.6 kernel, will be available with Dell PowerEdge 1850, 2800 and 2850 servers. The operating system will come bundled with the server at the time of purchase. Novell and Dell will collaborate on customer support.
Linda York, vice president of global alliances marketing in Dell’s product group, said the offering gives customers another robust and scalable enterprise platform to replace more costly proprietary UNIX-based systems or to deploy the Linux operating system for the first time.
According to Dell, the servers are ideal for customers deploying Web farms, IT infrastructures and custom applications.
Novell acquired SUSE LINUX in January of this year, positioning itself as a major competitor to Red Hat Linux, the industry’s leading Linux vendor. Analysts say the agreement is good news for Novell, which has had a tough time breaking into the North America market, where Red Hat has strong enterprise support. Most of Novell’s enterprise customers are in the European Union.
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