Fujitsu Bundling SUSE Linux

WillAffleckUW writes "Fujitsu, which already offers Red Hat Linux on its servers, is announcing plans to offer SUSE Linux as well, according to an Infoworld article. Sadly, it's only for servers and services for Intel, not for AMD. Still, good news, in that you can go Red or Blue and still be Linux true!"

Another article, small but fleshes the story out

[master_meio]

Fujitsu to offer Suse Linux and server support services

PrimeQuest and Primergy servers gain Suse Linux support

By Martyn Williams, IDG News Service

July 08, 2005

Fujitsu (Profile, Products, Articles) will begin offering Novell's (Profile, Products, Articles) Suse Linux Enterprise Server software and support services for Fujitsu PrimeQuest and Primergy servers worldwide later this year, it said Friday. SPONSOR

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The company will offer the software with the Intel (Profile, Products, Articles) architecture servers from the end of September this year, said Nancy Ikehara, a spokeswoman for Fujitsu in Tokyo.

Fujitsu currently offers Windows and Red Hat (Profile, Products, Articles) Linux software development and support services for its PrimeQuest and Primergy servers.

The new agreement extends a deal that's been in place since 2000, under which Fujitsu supported Suse software on its Primergy servers in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa.

Re:blue?

[MrResistor]

It is, though I think a few of the Personal releases might have been blue.

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Red == Fujitsu; Blue == IBM ?

[Anonymous Coward]

And please, quit it with those damned poems :P

Re:AMD? Intel? How about SPARC?

[rm69990]

Sun is NOT dropping their Linux support. They are dropping support for their Java Desktop System. When Linux accounts for a large number of their server shipments, I doubt the shareholders would like them dropping support for it. I read somewhere that they ship more Linux servers than they do Solaris servers.

Note : Desktop != Server

Re:Only for servers?

[Ian.Waring]

HP are to bundle Ubuntu on some of their laptops as a default install, with all the ACPI, Wifi support etc working out of the box.

Re:Only for servers?

[Anonymous Coward]

HP are to bundle Ubuntu on some of their laptops as a default install, with all the ACPI, Wifi support etc working out of the box.

It doesn't come pre-installed, they throw a CD in the box (like they used to do with FreeDOS floppies). And they won't sell these units in North America.

Can you guess the reason for all of this esoteric jumping through hoops?

Well they have been making Linux solutions

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For example:
"New heights achieved with SAP R/3 high-end computing:
23,000 SD benchmark users; LINUX entering business critical computer environments"
An old press release [fujitsu-siemens.com]. Fujitsu Siemens have been offering large SAP installation running on Linux, lately SuSE I bellive.