Under the promotion, the two companies are providing prospective application porters who sign up for the deal between now and the end of March with 90 days of free technical support and an evaluation copy of SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9 for iSeries, pSeries, or OpenPower servers.
Customers have to come up with their own iron, but IBM and Novell are giving developers a software development kit that helps them to begin the job of porting. IBM and Novell are also making vague promises about co-marketing and sales support, but what it really means is that you can register your application to be included in a big database of applications that support Linux-Power. You can sign up on Novell’s site to participate in the program.
