____/ John Bailo, Texeme.Construct on Tuesday 07 August 2007 20:42 : \____
>
> http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/articles/marketwire/0287276.htm
>
> "At the opening of the LinuxWorld/Next Generation Data Center trade
> show in San Francisco, IBM (NYSE: IBM) and Novell today announced a
> new agreement to join forces to capture a larger piece of the growing
> open source application server market. Under the agreement, Novell
> will deliver and support WebSphere Application Server Community
> Edition (WAS CE) as part of SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server, making it
> the industry's most comprehensive open source-based server offering.
>
> The agreement comes on the heels of the one millionth distribution of
> WAS CE, IBM's open source-based application server, which is based on
> Apache Geronimo and free to download and use. IBM and Novell will
> offer support and migration tools to help customers using JBoss to
> quickly and easily move to WAS CE. Combining WAS CE with SUSE Linux
> Enterprise Server from Novell® provides an unbeatable combination for
> the small and medium-size business (SMB) market, where Novell excels,
> and a compelling offering for enterprise customers with distributed
> computing environments, specifically in the retail and financial
> services industries. IBM and Novell will team on joint marketing and
> sales campaigns targeting customers around the world. "
Red Hat is still IBM's favourite child. *smile* They announced a partnership on
servers yesterday.
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