SUSE Linux and IBM today announced the foundation of a joint Software Integration Center located at the IBM Toronto Lab - providing enterprise customers optimized interaction of the SUSE Linux Enterprise Server operating system with IBM software offerings. The collaboration will initially focus on IBM DB2 Universal Database offerings and will subsequently be extended to other IBM software products.
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server is the first Linux operating system to be validated on all hardware platforms supported by DB2 for Linux and validated to run DB2 Enterprise Server Edition. In the Software Integration Center, IBM and SUSE will collaborate on porting, migration, certification and support of future IBM DB2 software offerings on the SUSE Linux Enterprise Server platform. This will ensure optimized functionality of database applications and underlying enterprise operating system technology -- making SUSE Linux Enterprise Server and IBM DB2 database software a highly available, scalable combination for mission-critical deployments in data centers. In addition, customers will benefit from the unique quality of server operating system and IBM middleware being perfectly tuned and the even faster availability of certified updates.
"The SUSE-IBM Software Integration Center at the IBM Toronto Lab will intensify the work already underway to optimize DB2 and other IBM software products with SUSE Linux offerings," said Bob Picciano, Director of Database Technology, IBM Toronto Software Lab. "The result will be solutions that can help provide customers with a rapid return on investment, particularly for IBM's integrated Linux database cluster. It takes the longstanding, close engineering relationship between IBM and SUSE to a higher level with the ultimate goal of higher customer satisfaction."
"The new SUSE-IBM Software Integration Center strengthens SUSE Linux and IBM's commitment to deliver enterprise-class Linux software that can be deployed with maximum performance, highest availability and unprecedented low cost of ownership," said Uwe Heine, Chief Alliance Officer of SUSE Linux. "Using IBM software applications on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, combined with the SUSE Linux Maintenance Program, businesses benefit from high stability of their mission-critical Linux deployments, considerably saving software integration and administration workload."
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