Siebel and Novell extend their partnership

Siebel Systems, a provider of customer-facing solutions, and Novell, provider of infrastructure software and services, announced that they have extended their partnership to provide support for Siebel business applications on Novell's SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9. The broadened scope of complementary offerings will enable their customers to deploy Siebel applications on an open source platform. 

The applications will be backed by enterprise-class support and the flexibility to choose from a wide range of hardware options. Siebel Systems' product development team will work directly with Novell's engineering organization to take full advantage of Novell's Linux platform. 

The extended development partnership will deliver support for standards-based computing solutions. 

"This new product initiative enables Siebel to offer our customers the additional choice of using Novell's fully supported Linux platform for their Siebel deployments," said Skip Bacon, VP, Technology, Siebel Systems. 

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