Review: Novell software easiest yet at building Linux appliances

” SUSE Studio is a free, web-based service designed to build
virtual appliances, such as pre-installed hardware-appliances, or
“software appliances” — pre-configured Linux server stacks
suitable for installation by users on real or virtual commodity
hardware. Recently released from beta, SUSE Studio can produce
appliance images in raw disk image, Live CD/DVD iso, VMware, and
Xen formats, and there are plans in the works for supporting
Amazon’s EC2 ami format, says the review by our sister publication,
eWEEK.

“SUSE Studio is part of Novell’s SUSE Appliance Program, which
eWEEK describes as an initiative intended to streamline product
delivery and maintenance for ISVs by enabling them to bundle their
wares with everything required for direct deployment to virtual,
physical, or cloud-based infrastructure.

“In a major study of the Linux market released in April, IDC
touted software appliances as an opportunity for Linux. These
turnkey software stacks, which combine the OS, middleware, “other
infrastructure software components,” and in some cases, even
application software, are quickly replacing discrete software
stacks, said IDC.”

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