Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2000 19:11:25 +0100
From: Martina Eckstein <meck@suse.de>
To: lwn@lwn.net
Subject:  "SuSE Linux For S/390 Available Today"



SuSE Linux For S/390 Available Today

Nuremberg, GERMANY, Oakland, CA - October 31st, 2000 - Today, SuSE
Linux, the international technology leader and solutions provider in
Open Source operating system software, announced the general
availability of SuSE Linux Enterprise Server for S/390. SuSEīs Linux
distribution for the mainframe allows enterprise customers to scale
Linux from PC clients to host systems.

"We are glad to be the only company today delivering a worldwide Linux
distribution for IBM S/390 servers", said Roland Dyroff, CEO of SuSE
Linux AG. "SuSE Linux Enterprise Server for S/390 is the result of the
unique partnership between SuSE and IBM. SuSE's technological leadership
and expertise in combination with IBM's strength and reliability make
SuSE Linux for S/390 systems the operating system of choice in the
enterprise server environment."

With the general availability of SuSE Linux Enterprise Server for S/390,
SuSE supports more IBM server platforms than any other commercially
available Linux distribution. "Itīs great to have the SuSE Linux for
S/390 distribution generally available and ready for our customers to
put into production", said Nancy Roath, IBM Vice President Enterprise
Server Brand Marketing. "SuSEīs Linux for S/390 and our S/390 and
zSeries servers together provide an industrial strength thatīs ready to
support mission critical server applications."

SuSE Linux Enterprise Server for S/390 supports IBMīs G5 and G6 servers
as well as the popular IBM Multiprise 3000. There are three methods for
installation of SuSE Linux. First, in a logical partition (LPAR).
Secondly, as a guest under the operating system VM (Virtual Machine),
and finally, within the Virtual Image Facility (VIF), which allows to
implement several thousand independent Linux images on one machine.

"We used the same source code base and build process for SuSE Linux
Enterprise Server for S/390 as on our other platforms", explained Marcus
Kraft, development manager for SuSE Linux on S/390. "This quality
attribute makes SuSE Linux unique." With common APIs (Application
Programming Interfaces) Software developers can create applications on a
PC and migrate them easily to their preferred target  platform. 
Administrators benefit from common setup and configuration. "It
was a major effort to ensure we have a well tested, real Linux
distribution, not just some code that runs on S/390", said Kraft.

SuSE Linux Enterprise Server for S/390 includes more than 700
application packages specifically tailored for the enterprise
environment. SuSE Linux S/390 also includes a rich set of support and
service options for any kind of enterprise needs, including installation
planning, training, performance measurement and tuning.

Further information on the product and how to place orders is available
on http://s390.suse.de/en/

About SuSE:

SuSE Linux AG is the international technology leader and solutions
provider in Open Source operating system (OS) software.  SuSEīs 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.

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 74053507
Fax: +49 911 74053575