Linux Relevant Products/Services from Sybase ASE Linux Express Edition – FREE solutions developer Xandros today announced that Wal-Mart’s (NYSE: WMT) Latest News about Wal-Mart online store is carrying a full range of Linux desktop computers with the pre-installed Xandros Desktop Operating System.
Built by Microtel and available at Walmart.com, the offerings provide a range of inexpensive home, school, and small office desktop machines loaded with Xandros Desktop Deluxe.
Expanding their longtime partnership into the Linux* arena, Oracle (NASDAQ:ORCL) and Novell (NASDAQ:NOVL) today announced that Oracle’s latest database, clustering, application server, collaboration solutions and enterprise applications are now available for and supported on Novell’s SUSE® LINUX Enterprise Server 9. Oracle® Database 10g, Oracle Application Server 10g and Oracle Real Application Clusters, Oracle Collaboration Suite, and Oracle E-Business Suite 11i 10 have all been tested and certified for deployment on SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 9. Customers can deploy Oracle products on SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 9 knowing that Novell and Oracle stand behind them with world-class support and training.
“Oracle’s support of key products on SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 9 marks another important step in providing choice to customers,” said Hal Bennett, vice president of alliances at Novell. “Combining the power of Oracle with the 2.6 Linux kernel in SUSE LINUX makes for a compelling data center option for enterprise customers.”
Analysts said Sybase is a winner in the deal because teaming with Big Blue makes its Linux giveaway software far more desirable and lends it instant credibility. Forrester analyst Noel Yuhanna said the small and mid-sized enterprise market was most likely to be attracted to the offering.
Sybase (NYSE: SY) said today that it has struck a deal with IBM (NYSE: IBM) in which Big Blue will market and distribute Sybase’s Linux database management software
IBM will market the Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) solution from Sybase for use on its eServer OpenPower platform. The customized version of the software is slated to be available pre-loaded onto IBM servers starting early in 2005.
Dublin, California-based Sybase was one of the first software companies to offer a Linux-friendly database offering and says that more than 40,000 companies and other organizations worldwide now use its ASE solution, which debuted in 1999.
The car hire firm says its has cut hardware and maintenance costs dramatically by migrating 1,500 rental stations to thin clients running Linux
Car hire firm Europcar International has migrated thousands of PCs across Europe from Windows fat clients to Linux thin clients, lowering both its hardware and maintenance costs.
The car hire firm has saved on hardware and maintenance costs by migrating its 1,500 stations to thin clients running Linux, but Stefan Ostrowski, the CIO of Europcar, said that while migrating to Linux thin clients has saved them money, but it would not have been as cost effective for them to migrate fat clients to Linux.