John Dragoon’s Blog

A little over 48 hours ago we launched the SUSE Appliance Program, the first END-TO-END technology and business solution for creating and deploying fully supported software appliances.  Reaction to this announcement from the industry, press and most importantly independent software vendors and developers has been both humbling and terrific.

In fact, since the announcement, ISVs and developers have been busy. We’ve had:

- 3,198 requests for new accounts which is slightly more than 1 request a minute

- 2,711 appliance builds, 1,104 appliance builds in the last 24 hours alone

- 1,186 test drives of built appliances

Reaction from the industry and press has been equally encouraging such as:

“It may be the most important thing Novell has done for software shops in decades” from Dana Blankenhors at ZDNET

and

“…Novell’s SUSE Appliance Program arguably tackles one of the hardest problems in Linux, and delivers a truly easy experience…”from Matt Asay at CNET

and

“Novell’s SUSE Studio…outshines similar services….with its ease of use and tight integration…” from Jason Brooks review in eWeek

But alas, we are just getting started.   Novell’s Chief Technology Officer of Linux and Open Source, Nat Friedman, just launched a fascinating series of blog posts on SUSE Studio and software appliances which you can find here.

Changing the software delivery model and the software experience.  That’s what SUSE Studio is about and the reception so far seems to indicate thousands agree.

John

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