Novell & SpikeSource

Market Start Program

Meet the Partner

SpikeSource and Novell are providing customers with jointly certified, business-ready open source infrastructure that is easy to deploy and manage. The Spike Stack, available in LAMP, Java Servlet, and J2EE combinations, includes common configuration runtime management, a GUI tool to manage the configuration of installed components and a set of sample applications. Spike Net, a subscription service that filters over 15,000 open source 'events' per day, provides an ongoing stream of fully tested component updates that correct critical security defects, improve operational characteristics and deliver new features, all backed by 24 x 7 production support.

As part of its participation in the Novell Market Start Program, SpikeSource has also YES certified its infrastructure stacks and will provide Spike Certification for open source solutions running on the Spike Stack and SuSE. Market Start solutions, which are available to mid-market customers primarily through Novell's VAR channel, can now receive end-to-end integration certification from the operating system through the infrastructure to the application.

Resources

Spike Stack
SpikeSource Technology +

SpikeSource Services
Learn more about the Spike Stack, Spike Net and Support Services. +

Free Markets in Software
View a demo on Business-Ready Open Source +

Information availability defines markets. Thanks to open source, the new software market is becoming a dynamic commodity-based free market. To see where software is going, we need to look at markets that have had good information for a long time. Today, strategies that work for selecting coffee beans and hiring baseball players are becoming useful for choosing software. Check out this presentation to see examples of companies using open source not just as a generic replacement for existing software, but as an enabler for creating new value, and cover how we're learning to create value not just from the code itself, but from the information about software quality and interoperability that collaborative development makes available.

View Kim Polese's OSBC West 2006 Presentation, "Free Markets in Software". +