On YouTube I've published a three-part video of a presentation I did in early July 2010 to IBM retail partners. The sound volume is a bit low, and this was all recorded with a little flip mino camera, so please excuse the bad quality.

The three video snippets are mainly intended for any of you who want to use Linux in retail as a solution provider and are wondering how solutions from Novell can help you be more successful.

Nevertheless, especially the first part about how we see the future of the Point of Service might also be interesting to you if you are a decision maker in retail or just curious about how the future in retail IT may look like.

The new features in SUSE Linux Enterprise Point of Service 11 Service Pack 1 are only mentioned briefly in this presentation. Watch out for more blog posts to come on Service Pack 1.

This is Joachim Werner blogging live from the SUSE offices in Nuremberg, Germany.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WdYEeLIou7s
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Awr3tPpo2Y
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwwKpoEI9GI

They're looking for inventive minds to build the most innovative software appliances. Publish your unique appliance to the new SUSE® Gallery™ and enter into a contest to win $10,000!

The contest runs from July 27 - September 30, 2010, so brush off your mad skills and pop on over here for all the details.

It must not be too hard.... in the past year, more than 400,000 Linux appliances were built using SUSE Studio, with nearly 3 million downloads. SUSE Gallery is the place to strut your stuff and show off the appliances you have built with SUSE Studio. It also serves as a centralized online showcase where SUSE Studio users can browse and use both commercial and community-oriented appliances.

Good luck! Make Cool Solutions proud.

The next SHARE event is approaching quickly - it takes place in Boston from August 1-5 at Hynes Convention Center: http://www.share.org/Events/UpcomingConference/tab...

If you are attending, don´t miss the chance to meet our experts for System z, and visit us at Booth #319. To name just a few, watch out for Kim Lorusso (IBM Alliance Marketing Manager and Cool Blogger), Patrick Quairoli (Technical Alliance Manager), Marcus Kraft (Linux on mainframe "pioneer" and Product Manager for SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for System z), David Getzin (Partner Executive for IBM), John Jolly (Sys z Architect), and others. Chat with them about the SUSE Linux Enterprise Consolidation Suite tailored for IBM Solution Edition for Enterprise Linux. Don´t know what that is? Read more here: http://www.novell.com/products/systemz/els.html
And get the latest about the new zEnterprise System - you bet that will be one of the "ruling" topics.

Or listen to Mike Friesenegger, one of our most experienced Technical Specialists, when he talks about "ASP.NET on zLinux: A New Workload" (Tues Aug 3, 9:30-10:30AM, Room 305) and about how to " Implement the SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability Extension on System z" (Tues Aug 3, 11AM-12PM, Room 208). And you´ll have the opportunity to hear from customers like Nationwide Insurance why and how they use SLES for System z.

And as a side note - for those who have travel constraints and cannot attend personally, SHARE offers the option to participate online - just check out http://www.share.org/Events/UpcomingConference/SHA...

This week on Thursday IBM made a ground-breaking announcement about the revolutionary zEnterprise System - you might have read my article here on Cool Solutions:
http://www.novell.com/communities/node/11670/ibm-f...

Curious now about getting details and some hard facts? Just download the data sheet from IBM and see how it works. Want to discuss how this new system relates to SUSE Linux Enterprise ? Leave a comment or drop me an email at chabow@novell.com

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