SUSE Linux Enterprise ISV Partner Program

Choose the level that makes sense for you and we’ll do the rest.

The SUSE® Linux Enterprise ISV Partner Program offers you a quick, easy, and efficient way to certify your application on the only Linux platform that is ready for mission-critical workloads. Novell makes it easy for you to certify your applications with our dedicated team of certification engineers that helps you easily port your application to SUSE Linux Enterprise.

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Contact our dedicated SUSE Linux Enterprise ISV Partner Program team for more information on how to certify your applications and which level of certification is right for you. Tell us more about your applications, how they are maintained, and what your customers require for their operating system environments.

Novell is ready to make certifying simple.

Choice of Certification Levels

The Novell Ready Program focuses on all other partner certification requirements, including access to information about the specific solution and user space applications for both native and virtualized environments. Vendors participating in the Ready Program conduct their own compatibility tests and must officially support their product in a Novell environment to be considered Novell Ready. Support is delivered directly from the product vendor.

The Novell YES Certified Program is applicable for Linux kernel-level software and hardware applications for native environments and provides mutual customers with hardware and software products that have been certified as compatible with the SUSE Linux Enterprise product line. Hardware and software vendors participating in the YES Certified Program agree to maintain a close relationship with Novell for delivering support to customers. We create support contacts to deliver joint support from Novell and the vendor when supporting customers using YES Certified products.

It lowers costs. It crosses platforms. It has worldwide credibility.

You can't afford not to have your application certified on SUSE Linux Enterprise. It is your customers' platform of choice. For good reason. It is the most cost-effective platform that maximizes available hardware resources through virtualization, integrates seamlessly into existing Windows environments, provides a high price/performance ratio and is backed by industry-recognized support and services.

Designed with the heterogeneous environment in mind, SUSE Linux Enterprise is the most interoperable platform on the market today. It seamlessly integrates into and supports existing Windows file and print environments.

With the built-in Xen hypervisor technology, customers can now run Windows applications, unmodified, with near-native performance on fully virtualized servers.

The platform your customers choose to run their mission-critical applications.

For those customers seeking a mixed-operating environment, SUSE Linux Enterprise is the only choice because it integrates into the existing Windows environment with full support from both Novell and Microsoft.

World-Class Support and Services

The fact that SUSE Linux Enterprise is backed by world-class Novell technical support is a major reason why customers select this Linux distribution. Novell is the only Linux vendor to receive Support Center Practice Certification.

This internationally recognized standard was developed by the Service and Support Professionals Association and a consortium of IT companies.

Server Operating System Support that Sets the Standard

In addition, VAR Business Report Card ranked Novell number one in server operating system support, primarily because Novell Technical Support meets more than 99 percent of its service-level agreements and because 65 percent of all calls are resolved within five minutes.

The award-winning Novell support team has global reach and a proven track record of excellence, including 11 major global support centers, with more than 700 Linux trained engineers providing 24x7x365 availability.

Partner with the best in the business and your customers will thank you.

The benefits of certifying on SUSE Linux Enterprise are many. Once you are certified, Novell delivers testing and technical assistance. Our dedicated ISV certification team provides porting and migration assistance, robust training and consulting and access to IHV partner support that includes: performance testing, benchmarking and stack solutions—all of which can be jointly promoted with the IHV.

Partner Readiness Assistance

Our dedicated team of engineers will help you get your application ready to certify on SUSE Linux Enterprise. They will work with you every step of the way to deliver application migration and porting services, including Mono, for porting Microsoft .NET applications to SUSE Linux Enterprise and provide Software Development Kits (SDKs).

Novell's dedicated team will have you up and running in no time.

900 Training Partners Worldwide

An extensive network of Novell consulting and partner organizations back SUSE Linux Enterprise with a robust set of offerings for implementation and training.

In fact, Novell has more than 900 commercial and academic training partners worldwide, all of whom are ready to offer the latest training for you and your customers on SUSE Linux Enterprise at every level, from beginners to experts.

1,900 Consulting Professionals

Novell Consulting has more than 1,900 professionals worldwide and has specialized practices in enterprise platform services, data center technologies and open source development.

This helps your customers quickly deploy SUSE Linux Enterprise inside the organization, regardless of which workload is chosen. Novell Consulting offers several "Fast Track" programs for SUSE Linux Enterprise 10, including migration services offerings from Windows NT, Sun Solaris, HP-UX, IBM AIX and Red Hat.

Joint Marketing Opportunities

Other benefits include joint marketing opportunities such as joint success story and press release activity with application partners, exposure through novell.com, cross-partnering opportunities with IHV and other vendor partner programs, and partner newsletters to ensure regular updates to the partner community on new offerings, products, campaigns, tools and technical enablement information.

Novell's hardware vendor ecosystem also provides opportunities for ISVs to strengthen their own relationships with these partners, as well as expand into new markets.

SUSE Linux Enterprise is certified and supported by industry giants. So you know you're in good company.

Your customers want a Linux platform with the broadest possible range of application and hardware support. SUSE Linux Enterprise has been certified by all of the leading application vendors, including mySAP, Oracle and PeopleSoft, as well as many popular desktop applications and is also supported by all leading hardware vendors such as IBM and Dell.

In addition, SUSE Linux Enterprise is the only Linux distribution that has certified leading open source applications on the platform, including MySQL and SugarCRM.

This mixed-source approach allows your customers to choose the best application for their businesses and to have the confidence that it will run on SUSE Linux Enterprise.

Certified by some of the biggest names in software and hardware.

Make The Best Choice for Your Customers

More and more of your customers are choosing SUSE Linux Enterprise for both their Linux and mixed operating system environments. Which means your application should also be certified to ensure integration and flexibility within your customers' IT infrastructures.

Whether your customers want to run SUSE Linux Enterprise on servers or clients, on single-processor whitebox systems, on blades or on the largest mainframes, you'll find that SUSE Linux Enterprise is certified on the architectures your customers need.

Novell works closely with chip manufacturers Intel and AMD and supports 32-bit and 64-bit architectures, as well as the latest single and dual-core processors.

An Extensive Hardware Vendor Ecosystem

SUSE Linux Enterprise is fully certified on the latest servers, workstations, desktops, and laptops from IBM, Dell, Fujitsu, HP, Lenovo, Silicon Graphics, Sun, Unisys and others.

These vendors have partnered closely with Novell engineering teams throughout the design and creation of SUSE Linux Enterprise to ensure that it takes full advantage of the capabilities of the platforms on which it is deployed.

Certify on the platform that works with everything and everyone.

More and more customers understand that the era of running Windows and Linux separately is over. That’s why they’re choosing the most interoperable platform on the market today: SUSE Linux Enterprise.

Designed with the heterogeneous environment in mind, this platform directly addresses a major ISV challenge: interoperability and integration into IT environments.

Seamlessly Integrates with Windows

Every enterprise acquires a mix of operating systems and hardware over a period of years. Leveraging Samba technology, SUSE Linux Enterprise seamlessly integrates into and supports existing Windows file and print environments.

Endorsed by Microsoft for running Windows and Linux together in a mixed IT environment.

Joint Support from Novell and Microsoft

SUSE Linux Enterprise also plugs into existing directory and domain infrastructures, including Microsoft Active Directory and Domains, Novell eDirectory™ and openLDAP.

So, if your customers need to port a UNIX application into a Windows-dominated environment, chances are they’ll choose SUSE Linux Enterprise because it integrates into the existing Windows environment and enjoys joint support from both Novell and Microsoft.

Open Standards that Work with the Next Big Thing—Whatever It Is

With its broad use of open standards, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server lets customers share information across any IT system so they can easily communicate between business divisions or business partners.

As more customers are committing to a mixed operating environment and choosing SUSE Linux Enterprise for the heterogeneous data center, shouldn’t your applications be certified on a platform that helps them achieve the best possible performance for their business?