SAP and Novell collaborate to deliver open source business products

Novell and SAP have strengthened their relationship to enable all sizes of firms to run 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.