“The mainframe has relatively high acquisition costs. However—thanks in part to SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for z Systems and LinuxONE—it is highly cost-effective in terms of the long-term TCO, because it enables us to serve a large and varied customer base with just a small internal team.”

“Previously, it took around 25 hours to apply major patches to our entire SUSE Linux Enterprise Server environment because we had to manually find, download, verify and deploy the patch individually on each server. Now, we can complete major updates within just four hours.”

“With SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for z Systems, we get excellent performance and bullet-proof reliability—plus it’s easy and cost-effective to manage.”

“Using the SAP-certified SUSE distribution of Linux gives us confidence that our systems will continue to work reliably, which is a key concern in our industry. And where we encounter any difficulties, the support from SUSE is excellent and the response very timely. With SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP …

“YaST is extremely convenient and highly user-friendly—we really value the graphical interface, which makes it quick and easy to install and configure new virtual servers. In general terms, we have also found the SUSE documentation to be of very high quality, which makes it easier for us to resolve minor …

“The clustered SUSE Linux Enterprise environment delivers better than 99 percent availability, which is critical for supporting our manufacturing operations 24×7. The fact that these high-availability tools are built into the operating system is a real advantage for SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, compared to other operating systems.”

“When we discovered that the flexibility of the SUSE operating system meant we could use it with practically any type of hardware, it became the most logical option, making the merger of our IT systems a relatively straightforward process.”

“The choice of SUSE Linux Enterprise Server ensures that a single team with a common skill-set can manage our Linux applications with the minimum of effort and expense.”

“Using dedicated servers is best in terms of performance and simplicity, but it is also good to have the option of running SUSE Linux Enterprise Server with VMware for non-production systems. This gives us a lot of flexibility and agility when we start a new project and need to begin …

"With SUSE Linux Enterprise Server with Expanded Support, we have made major savings on our software licenses without any disruption to our operations."

“The Web service is a highly visible part of our operations and critical to our customer relationships, which shows the trust and confidence we have in SUSE Linux Enterprise Server.”

“The bundling of the SUSE high-availability component offered an economic way to support our requirements for always-on SAP systems, compared with competitive offerings.”

“We have some other systems in the migration pipeline now because our experience suggests that Linux is generally more stable and easier to manage than Windows. Before the SAP HANA project began, perhaps 2% of our servers were on Linux, whereas today we are at about 20%. At the end …

“SUSE Manager gives us a single point of control for applying all the necessary patches to selected servers and for scheduling those updates for times we’d rather be sleeping than working overtime!”

"SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for System z has provided a robust implementation for SAP, with unsurpassed reliability."