The APL list is expected to become a Department of Defense and U.S. federal government equipment purchase requirement. In addition to making Novell the first Linux vendor to appear on the list, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server is also the only general-purpose operating system with IPsec IKEv2 (Internet Key Exchange v2) support to date. The product was granted IPv6 certification just four days after the release of SP2.
"SUSE Linux Enterprise Server is the Linux operating system that
government agencies can rely on to meet their mission-critical performance
demands while satisfying stringent federal mandates," said
On behalf of the U.S. federal government, the Office of Management and
Budget (OMB) issued a policy mandating all federal government agencies upgrade
their network infrastructures to IPv6 and interface each agency network with
this infrastructure by
The next-generation platform for the open enterprise, SUSE Linux Enterprise is the best-engineered and most interoperable platform for mission- critical computing, from the desktop to the data center. For more information on SUSE Linux Enterprise offerings from Novell, visit www.novell.com/linux.
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