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To: rupert1 who wrote (77355)	2/1/2000 11:49:00 PM
From: Captain Jack	Respond to of 97611

NEW YORK, Feb 2, 2000 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- SuSE, a leading international Linux company, and Compaq Computer Corp., announce an expanded partnership today to provide call center support for SuSE's distributions of the Linux OS running on Compaq's Alpha and Intel products. With this announcement, Compaq brings the power of one of the best worldwide service organizations to the SuSE Linux customer base. Compaq's Customer Services organization serves hundreds of thousands of customers internationally and has service organizations in more than 100 countries. SuSE will directly train Compaq's technical support staff in the specifics of SuSE Linux, with customer problems escalated to SuSE for resolution when required. In addition to handling the service calls requiring a highly technical understanding of SuSE Linux, SuSE will also provide 24/7 and onsite engineering coverage to Compaq for certain classes of support incidents. "These new services combine Compaq's worldwide services expertise and capabilities and our hardware and networking experience with SuSE's in depth knowledge of Linux and open source software," says Peter Mercury, Vice President and General Manager, Customer Services, Compaq Computer Corporation. "Compaq customers will receive all the benefits of our companies' combined experience providing Linux on the Alpha and Intel platforms worldwide." "SuSE is delighted that Compaq is supporting our Linux products on Intel and Alpha platforms," says Stefan Wintermeyer, SuSE's Director of Worldwide Support. "Compaq Alpha Systems are popular in the Linux community for those that require the high performance of 64-bit technology. We look forward to a continuing relationship in supporting Compaq's customers who prefer SuSE Linux." SuSE's current release for the Alpha platform, SuSE Linux 6.3 for Alpha-AXP, features over 1200 applications. SuSE Linux 6.3 for Intel includes 1500 applications. Alpha and Intel users can benefit from the unified "look and feel" of SuSE's installation and administration tools across platforms. A release on PowerPC is planned for this spring. ABOUT SuSE: SuSE has been providing Linux software solutions to business and personal customers since 1992. SuSE produces the popular SuSE Linux distribution; has offices in Germany, Italy, the U.S., Prague, and London; and operates SuSE Linux Labs, a research organization providing Open Source advancement. SuSE is an established leader in Linux technical development because of its participation in Linux kernel development and other open source projects, such as XFree86[tm], glibc, KDE and USB (Universal Serial Bus), since the early 1990's. For more information, please see SuSE's web site, suse.com.