Novell and Dell

Novell and Dell have teamed up for over 14 years to consistently deliver innovative and robust solutions for Novell environments. Dell and Novell are furthering our partnership and commitment to excellence by providing the industry's leading Linux solution on the industry-leading PowerEdge servers from Dell.

SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Desktop is the market–s only enterprise-quality Linux desktop that–s ready for routine business use. Certified on select Dell hardware.

PlateSpin Workload Management

PlateSpin® Workload Management can allow you to profile, migrate, protect and manage server workloads between physical and virtual infrastructures in heterogeneous IT environments. Together, Dell and PlateSpin can help you transform your IT environment into a flexible, interoperable and cost-effective data center.

Interoperability with
Microsoft

Dell was the first major hardware provider to join the collaboration agreement between Microsoft and Novell that promises customers interoperability between Linux and Windows environments.

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server is an enterprise-quality server designed to handle mission-critical workloads in the data center.

Success Stories

The Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto (FEUP)
The Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto has built a major academic information system using Oracle 10g running on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server on Intel Xeon-powered Dell PowerEdge servers. This groundbreaking solution offers high availability and performance for critical administrative systems, with a low cost of ownership. +

Meet the Partner

For well over a decade, the Novell/Dell alliance has enabled tight integration between the partners leading software and hardware offerings. And the partnership is only expanding. From the IT infrastructure to compute-intensive applications: Novell and Dell share a commitment to bring Linux to every facet of the enterprise.