
Novell
and SAPhave strengthened their relationship
to enable all sizes of firms torun mission-critical systems on
Linux.
In a move that will help meet growing demand for the SUSE Linux
Enterprise platform and provide support for the open source
community, Novell and SAP are planning to offer enhanced options
for customers who choose to run open source.
As part of this initiative, the companies will work together to
enable SAP's enterprise applications to work with SUSE Linux
Enterprise and Novell's
virtualisation and identity management technologies to provide
new datacentre options for customers.
In addition, the companies plan to optimise SUSE Linux
Enterprise for SAP's data centre infrastructure requirements,
further promote SAP Business All-in-One solutions based on SUSE
Linux Enterprise, and collaborate within the SAP Enterprise
Services Community programme, covering governance, risk and
compliance (GRC) practices.