The news come as developers are set to converge once again in San Francisco for the LinuxWorld Conference and Expo. The developments underscore the impact that open source technologies is having on enterprise applications. Whereas open source relegated itself previously as an operating system for hobbyists or at most running a corporate firewall, developers are now embracing open source software code in mission-critical functions like sales automation in order to help lower total cost of ownership.announced

In fact, open source was also a key point of interest last week in San Francisco when VoIP developers converged at the second annual VoIP Developer Conference, hosted by TMC, the parent of this Web site. Among the speakers drawingstanding-room-only crowds

Of its new relationship, Siebel said it really represents an extended development partnership where its product development team will work to support the standards-based computing solutions of Novell's Linux platform. "This new product initiative enables Siebel to offer our customers the additional choice of using Novell's fully supported Linux platform for their Siebel deployments," said Skip Bacon, Vice President, Technology, Siebel Systems.

"Specifically, this effort will allow customers of all sizes the opportunity to leverage standards-based computing technologies and exploit SUSE Linux's integrated management capabilities to enable system administrators to more rapidly deploy, configure, and operate their production systems. We look forward to continuing to work with Novell and deliver world-class enterprise solutions to our customers."

Robert Liu is Executive Editor at TMCnet. Previously, he was Executive Editor at Jupitermedia and has also written for CNN, A&E, Dow Jones and Bloomberg. For more articles, please visitRobert Liu's columnist page  TMCnet

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