VMware and Novell announced an extention to their partnership with an original equipment manufacturer (OEM) agreement. VMware will distribute and support the SUSE Linux Enterprise Server operating system. Under the agreement, VMware also intends to standardize its virtual appliance-based product offerings on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server.
“VMware’s mission is to reduce IT complexity and provide customers a pragmatic path to the cloud,” said Raghu Raghuram, senior vice president and general manager, Virtualization and Cloud Platforms, VMware. “By delivering SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for VMware with every qualified VMware vSphere subscription, customers can more easily and cost-effectively virtualize Linux applications, accelerate their evolution to a fully virtualized datacenter and simplify portability of their applications to cloud environments.”
