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Linux can help you in your quest to find a more cost-effective way to meet the quality IT-services demands of your organization. Linux has already proven itself as a powerful operating system for many types of workloads across a variety of industries around the world. Technology partners and companies of all sizes and in all industries around the world have successfully worked with SUSE® Linux Enterprise from Novell to improve business, realize significant ROI and create competitive advantage. Looking for a specific solution? Needing hints for a certain configuration? Check the samples!

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Novell recently completed its upgrade from Oracle* 11.02 to Oracle 11i. As part of the process, many individual and independent systems became part of the upgraded Oracle system. We achieved the following objectives:

  • Moved all tiers of our Oracle E-Business Suite to SUSE Linux Enterprise Server on commodity hardware
  • Improved availability and scalability with RAC
  • Provided database and application management and redundancy with PolyServe
  • Implemented user provisioning with Novell eDirectory™ and Novell Identity Manager
  • Provided single sign-on with Novell iChain®
  • Implemented load balancing via L4 switches
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server General

By choosing Linux and Concurrent RTE for your real-time data center, you can configure a modular, rich system that helps you consolidate servers, reduce costs and consistently achieve high quality of service.

SUSE Linux Enterprise General

"Real Time" means different things to different people. For the purposes of this paper, real time is the ability to complete a task within a predetermined length of time-every time that task is performed-regardless of external stimuli. This is also called deterministic performance because you know the task will be completed within a determined timeframe. Read the white paper to learn more.

SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time General

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