ServerWatch: Bringing Linux to the Enterprise With SUSE

“If the explosion of interest in Linux in the late ’90s
represented a revolution of sorts, the past few years have been a
cooling period during during which the multitude of available
distributions slowly shrunk to a small crowd. Of that crowd, one of
the two most prominent is SUSE, which survived a brutal post-boom
winnowing with smart partnerships and a product that earned notice
from big-iron outfits like IBM and a just-completed acquisition
from Novell, not to mention a loyal low-end customer base which
values the company’s fussy attention to detail.

“SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 8 (SLES) is a server-optimized
version of the vendor’s Linux distribution. It represents a
continuation of the company’s tradition of producing solid product,
with the added value being a level of consistency and portability
up and down the enterprise food chain — it provides the same APIs
and basic layout running on anything from a humble commodity server
to an IBM mainframe. This consistency is provided in large part by
the United Linux effort, a consortium designed to establish a
standard Linux platform (and compete with U.S. Linux front-runner
Red Hat)…”

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