Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2000 18:25:08 +0200
From: Martina Eckstein <meck@suse.de>
To: lwn@lwn.net
Subject:  "SuSE Linux AG Announce Full Support for IBM eServers"

SuSE Linux AG Announce Full Support For IBM eServers

Nuremberg, Germany - October 4th, 2000 - Today, SuSE Linux AG, the
international technology leader and solutions provider in Open Source
operating system (OS) software, announced their full support for
IBM eServers. SuSE Linux supports more IBM server platforms than any
other commercially available Linux distribution.
 
As a result of the close partnership between both companies, SuSE Linux
will support all existing and upcoming IBM server platforms with its
architecture agnostic distribution, from Intel based systems (IA 32; IA 64),
32 bit and 64 bit PowerPC systems to the traditional 31 bit S/390 and
new 64 bit Mainframes.

In preparation for the new 64 bit environment, SuSE Linux S/390 has been
available on the web since early July and has recorded more than 500
downloads. In addition to the Linux operating system environment, SuSE
Linux S/390 includes more than 400 popular software applications such as
Apache, Samba, Sendmail, Bind, various development tools and other
applications.
 
The availability of SuSE Linux S/390 facilitates and unifies platform
interoperability and system administration tasks in the heterogeneous IT
environment. Furthermore, it minimizes the expenditure for development,
education and acquisition of new products. SuSE Linux S/390 enables the
largest enterprises to realize major benefits by using their IBM S/390
systems as the base for rapid application development and deployment.
SuSE Linux S/390 is available in late October.
 
"Running SuSE Linux on IBM products, from ThinkPad to S/390, offers
enterprise solutions to a new breed of IT professionals", explained Dirk
Hohndel, CTO of SuSE Linux AG in Germany. "The stability of SuSE Linux,
deployed on robust and high performance platforms like IBM´s eServers,
is the ideal basis for applications in the professional environment."

More information about SuSE Linux S/390 is available at
http://www.suse.de/en/produkte/susesoft/s390/index.html

About SuSE

SuSE Linux AG is the international technology leader and solutions provider
in Open Source operating system (OS) software.  SuSE´s unique expertise in
Linux and their largest development team worldwide dedicated to Open
Source software has contributed to the recognition of SuSE as a leader in
Linux solutions. SuSE offers the largest support database to the public,
and owns the largest hardware database in the Linux market. Furthermore,
SuSE supports more hardware platforms than any other commercially
available Linux distribution.
 
Designed for Web and enterprise server environments and efficient as a
home and office platform, SuSE's distribution, surrounding features, 
effective configuration and intelligent design result in the most complete
Linux solution available today.

SuSE Linux AG, headquartered in Germany, and SuSE Inc., based in
Oakland, CA, are privately held companies focused entirely on supporting
the Linux community and Open Source development. With a workforce of over
500 people worldwide, SuSE has offices all over Europe, Latin America and
in the US. More than 50,000 business customers use SuSE Linux worldwide
due to its stability and high quality.

SuSE contributes considerably to Linux development projects such as the
Linux kernel, glibc, XFree86TM, KDE, ISDN4Linux, ALSA (Advanced Linux
Sound Architecture) and USB (Universal Serial Bus).

Additional information about SuSE can be found at http://www.suse.de/en/

Contact:
SuSE Linux AG
International PR
Martina Eckstein
e-mail: meck@suse.de
Phone: +49 911 740 53-507
Fax: +49 911 740 53-575