SuSE Showcases Partnerships, Linux Services at CA World Expo This Week.NEW ORLEANS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 16, 1999-- Still riding high on its growth of 230% in sales in the first quarter, SuSE is at CA World Expo this week promoting its expanding worldwide partnerships, including its partnership with Computer Associates International In May, Computer Associates International, Inc. (CA) and SuSE Holding AG (SuSE), Europe's leading Linux distributor An organization that offers the Linux operating system as a download or on CD-ROM or DVD. See Linux distribution and Linux. , announced a wide-ranging agreement to expand the adoption of Linux in enterprise computing Refers to information technology in the larger company. See enterprise data and enterprise networking. environments throughout Europe. This spring, SuSE also announced worldwide partner programs specifically for VARs, ISVs, Linux system integrators and consultants. SuSE is also offering professional services (job) professional services - A department of a supplier providing consultancy and programming manpower for the supplier's products. catering to mid-to-large businesses in Europe. "Our partnership strategy is based on offering our solid engineering background, which we have been demonstrating with a wide range of contributions to projects like the Linux(tm) Kernel, XFree86(tm), KDE (K Desktop Environment) A GUI-based user interface primarily for Unix and Linux machines, but also available for Windows and Mac. The source code is freely distributed and is maintained by developers around the world. , I4L I4L ISDN 4 for Linux , USB USB in full Universal Serial Bus Type of serial bus that allows peripheral devices (disks, modems, printers, digitizers, data gloves, etc.) to be easily connected to a computer. , and ALSA ALSA Advanced Linux Sound Architecture ALSA Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Association ALSA Australian Law Students' Association ALSA Alberta Land Surveyors Association ALSA Alpaca and Llama Show Association ALSA Air Land Sea Application Center , to partners invested in expanding their product offering on Linux," said Marc Torres, President of SuSE, Inc. "We have been in Linux since 1992 and have a long background in kernel development. Over 35,000 business customers are using our product, so our partners can rely on the depth and breadth of our experience to help them shoot the Linux rapids." SuSE also recently founded a research division, SuSE Labs, to further its commitment to research and development of open source code for its partners, clients, and the Linux community. "Thanks to SuSE Labs we are able to offer so-called Level 3 Support to our corporate customers. This guarantees effective help within defined response times to the customer, even at the source code level," said Tilman Munller-Gerbes, Vice President of SuSE Holding AG. "Along with the SuSE Partner Program and our local service offices and support centers, SuSE Labs is the third pillar of our service offering." Companies interested in partnerships with SuSE should come by booth no. 2423 July 18-23, at the Morial Convention Center in New Orleans, or contact info@suse.com and request information. |
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