[ Thanks to James Maguire for this link. ]
SUSE Studio started out as an online service in 2009 and then
expanded it with an on-premise version for enterprises and software
vendors in 2010. For on-premise users, the technology was known as
the SUSE Appliance Toolkit and included the SUSE Lifecycle
Management Server (SLMS).“With SLMS an ISV can manage software licenses and entitlements
as well as distribute software patches and updates. With the SUSE
Studio 1.2 update, the on-premise suite will only have the SUSE
Studio name and the Appliance Toolkit name is being dropped.
Instead, there is now the SUSE Studio Standard and Advanced
Editions. The key addition with the advanced edition is that it
enables users to build Linux appliances that will run on IBM’s
System Z mainframe.”