Addendum to Press Release: 'SAP and Novell Deliver Expanded Linux Support Options for Customers'

Quotes from Partners Supporting SAP-Novell Agreement 


VIENNA, Austria, May 15  /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- "Today's announcement that SUSE Linux Enterprise Server from Novell will be integrated into the SAP Solution Center is good news for AMD customers who enjoy choice and demand high-performing solutions. SAP on the SUSE Linux Enterprise platform is a strong example of the customer-centric industry collaboration that AMD supports working with technology partners like SAP and Novell."

Terri Hall, AMD Vice President, Software Alliances and Commercial Systems Marketing

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"As a leading IT professional services organization, we are constantly delivering the best out of technology to our customers, and in particular these days the capability to combine proprietary solutions and open standards. For this reason, Capgemini has developed a strong relationship with Novell and we are extremely excited by SAP's endorsement of SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, which fits our vision of the needs of our customers. As a global strategic partner of SAP, we look forward to further collaborating with Novell and SAP on joint projects."

Patrick Nicolet, Capgemini Group Sales Director

"Dell is answering the call from customers to deliver complete solutions that help simplify their IT operations. We're accomplishing this by aligning with industry leaders like Novell and SAP who share our goal of helping customers reduce the complexity of their heterogeneous data center environments so they can focus on growing their business."

Judy Chavis, Dell Product Group Director of Enterprise Marketing and Alliances

"Customers are rapidly moving to next-generation Linux-based IT architectures and they are demanding best-of-breed technologies that are integrated and well supported. Novell and SAP share our vision for mission-critical Linux in the Dynamic Data Center. With FlexFrame for SAP we offer a proven dynamic IT solution with business-critical SUSE Linux Enterprise support. Customer feedback shows that our FlexFrame with Linux provides a maximum of adaptability, availability and cost efficiency of SAP systems running on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server. The new offering from SAP and Novell support will enable us to provide enterprises with stress-free IT operations, to increase reliability and improve application availability at dramatically lowered costs."

Bernd Kosch, Fujitsu Siemens Computers Vice President, Alliances

"When industry leaders align, as Novell and SAP have today, it's customers that ultimately benefit as they are better able to manage and transform their IT environments to optimize business outcomes. HP has worked closely with SAP and Novell for many years to develop, test and validate Linux-based solutions. HP server platforms have always been the right fit. As a proof point, a recently announced two-tier SAP Sales and Distribution Standard Application Benchmark running on an HP ProLiant DL380 server with SUSE Linux Enterprise from Novell earned the top 2-processor Linux result. Our joint customers can deploy SAP solutions confident in the knowledge that they have the power of HP, SAP and Novell behind them."

Christine Martino, HP Vice President, Open Source & Linux Organization

"Both Novell and SAP are long-time partners of IBM, with SAP's offerings frequently deployed on IBM servers at both large and small customers. Strengthening SAP on the SUSE Linux Enterprise platform is a natural move, and we're thrilled to see Novell and SAP collaborate on behalf of customers."

Jim Stallings, IBM General Manager, System z

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