HP & Novell are partnering across the Enterprise

This software bundle also includes Service Pack 2. HP will offer the Enterprise Linux 8-License Value Pack from Novell which includes a single license to deploy SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server on eight (8) HP ProLiant and BladeSystem servers.

Novell has specifically designed this license for HP's customers to use on any combination of HP ProLiant and BladeSystem servers up to 4 CPU. Customers can deploy SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9 for 1P, 2P, or 4P servers on any eight HP ProLiant and BladeSystem servers.

This offer provides an unprecedented level of flexibility and is the industry's first value bundle for Linux that is usable across an entire product line. The Enterprise Linux 8-License Value Pack from Novell can be purchased only from HP.

'HP & Novell are partnering across the Enterprise to give customers solid operating system and product offerings, as well and support and certification. Our 20 years of alliance continues with this new offering. Our collaborative solution programs for risk migration include HP Linux Reference Architectures and Novell Validated Configurations. We would like to strengthen this relationship further more and come up with many more bundle offers to our customers to encourage them to buy and sell our products more enthusiastically and confidently.' says Gerard Mcdonnell, Director, Novell ME.

SLES - Suse Enterprise Server 9, is a scalable high performance platform that combines the best of Linux server software with configuration tools and documentation. It supports a complete range of architechtures including x86, AMD64, and EM64T and dramatically lowers management costs. It is easy to deploy, configure and maintain across the enterprise. It supports clustering for automatic fail-over and provides hotplug services for hardware change without system disruption. In addition to all these features, it increases application security.