Dell to offer SUSE Linux to enterprise customers

When Dell announced that it would support Ubuntu on select consumer PCs last week, many of us were left wondering what the company's plans were for the enterprise side of things. Not one to leave its enterprise customers in the dark, the Texas vendor has revealed that it will support SUSE Linux on enterprise machines, via that Microsoft/Novell deal that was made back in November. Dell will issue SUSE Linux Enterprise Server support certificates to business customers that and will establish a services and marketing program to push the new offering. This is undoubtedly a major triumph for Novell and for Microsoft, which had to be growing uneasy with all of this talk of Ubuntu on Dell machines. No details regarding the availability of SUSE certificates from Dell have been announced.

For more on the deal:
- see this Business Week article