Novell makes Linux deployment easier, across the pond

NETWORK WORLD NEWSLETTER: PHIL HOCHMUTH ON LINUX
07/27/05
Today's focus: Novell makes Linux deployment easier, across the
pond

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Today's focus: Novell makes Linux deployment easier, across the
pond

By Phil Hochmuth

They say Europe has richer architecture, tastier coffee, more
advanced cell phone technology ... now add better Linux
licensing options to the list.

Novell is making it easier for European users of IBM and SuSE
Linux to deploy the open source operating system on a wider
variety of platforms.

Under Novell's Strategic Enterprise Agreement for Linux, dubbed
SEAL, users with IBM servers can get discounts on bulk license
purchases of SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 9 - with up to 50%
price reductions. Along with the reduced price, users are also
allowed to deploy the SuSE Linux licenses across any IBM-based
server platform, from mainframe, to RISC-based and Intel-based
servers.

This kind of program could be useful for companies looking to
take a variety of different tasks running on separate servers -
such as e-mail, file/print or application servers - and pack
these workloads into a larger box, such as IBM zSeries
mainframe. The program appears to offer more flexibility for
users concerned about being locked into a certain kind of SuSE
license based on the hardware used. For example, if someone
decides to move a Linux-based application off of a virtual
server running on a mainframe to a eSeries or iSeries server,
there is not hassle involved in renegotiation or renewing the
license for the new server platform.

Novell has not said if it plans to launch SEAL in the North
American market. But if enough pro-Linux IBM data center shops
clamor for it, you might expect to see a similar iteration of
this program in the near future.

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