Sun continues to develop a broad range of alliances with partners in the Linux community to tune and distribute Sun's latest version of the Java Virtual Machine (JVM) with their Linux distributions. By becoming a Java 2 source licensee, SuSE joins Sun in a partnership to provide high performing Java based customer solutions for the SuSE platform.

The joint offering from SuSE and Sun provides customers with fully supported Java and Linux solutions. In collaboration with SuSE, Sun will provide global services and support for SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 8 on Sun's x86 systems and will support SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 8 on select third-party SuSE certified hardware. Sun will also support customers in heterogeneous environments including Solaris OS and Trusted Solaris, the Solaris x86 Platform Edition, SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 8, as well as other Sun supported Linux offerings. Sun will continue to support all existing Sun Linux customers to ensure their business continuity and investment protection.