>From our company's Novell contact It is nothing exciting; IBM is not dropping SUSE support, just support for a bundled stack of software, called ISSLE, which was geared for mid-market companies. It included a special web server configuration and was supposed to go after Windows servers running IIS and some of the File and Print space. ISSLE was a specialized SKU only promoted by IBM. It didn't sell well (most mid-market companies don't host their own websites anymore), so IBM decided to drop the SKU. Novell does not even offer the bundle itself.
http://www-01.ibm.com/cgi-bin/common/ssi/ssialias?infotype=an&subtype=ca&htmlfid=897/ENUS207-070&appname=usn&language=enus 'Where ever you go - There you are ' Richard (Gaz) Gasiorowski Global Product Manager - System z Linux Virutalization Americas Regional Mainframe Services Manager RPE Portfolio Platform Services CSC 3170 Fairview Park Dr., Falls Church, VA 22042 845-889-8533|Work|845-392-7889 Cell|[email protected]|www.csc.com This is a PRIVATE message. If you are not the intended recipient, please delete without copying and kindly advise us by e-mail of the mistake in delivery. NOTE: Regardless of content, this e-mail shall not operate to bind CSC to any order or other contract unless pursuant to explicit written agreement or government initiative expressly permitting the use of e-mail for such purpose. From: Mike Friesenegger <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Date: 10/13/2009 10:34 AM Subject: Re: SuSE Withdrawal The Integrated Stack product offer from Novell and IBM is a software bundle for File and Print serving and Web Application and Database serving for System z and System p running on SLES. Novell discontinued this product. My guess is that IBM is removing this offer from their product list as well. Regards, Michael Friesenegger Linux/Data Center Technical Specialist email: [email protected] >>> On 10/13/2009 at 07:42 AM, in message <[email protected]>, "David L. Craig" <[email protected]> wrote: > Did anyone besides me notice this among today's > announcements? What exactly does it signify? > > http://www-01.ibm.com/common/ssi/rep_ca/0/897/ENUS909-210/ENUS909-210.PDF > > -- > > May the LORD God bless you exceedingly abundantly! > > Dave Craig > > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - > "'So the universe is not quite as you thought it was. > You'd better rearrange your beliefs, then. > Because you certainly can't rearrange the universe.'" > > --from _Nightfall_ by Asimov/Silverberg > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or > visit > http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
