Register today for "The Lean Data Center" - a free seminar for IT decision-makers in manufacturing organizations.

Today's complex global business environment requires an agile IT platform that will scale as a manufacturer grows. Linux is an established, strategic IT platform for many Fortune 1000 enterprises today. But there has been slower adoption of Linux in manufacturing. This is not surprising since many manufacturers have not historically been early adopters for new technologies.

The time has come for Linux in manufacturing.
Linux is a proven technology that has enterprises reaping substantial cost benefits. A recent study of more than 800 enterprises conducted by the Independent Oracle Users Group (IOUG) for example, found that Linux will surpass Solaris as the leading Oracle deployment platform in 2007. Manufacturers who have large enterprise deployments of SAP, Oracle and other enterprise-wide applications can get the biggest bang for their buck by replacing UNIX with Linux in the data center.


Deploying on SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server with Intel technology delivers:

• Reduced total cost of ownership
• Increased flexibility
• Choice
• Productivity

Increase benefits with virtualization.
Start taming over-architected IT infrastructures! Learn about new virtualization technology that will allow you to increase server utilization and maximize efficiency in enterprise and technical data centers. With virtualization you can manage IT resources as they are needed—on demand—and eliminate wasted capacity.

Why you should attend.

By attending this seminar you will walk away with:

• A vision of how a Service Oriented Infrastructure can lead to transformation in manufacturing
• The right information and tools needed to make a decision for Linux
  A roadmap for deploying Linux in the data center and across the enterprise
• A strategic partner for optimizing and migrating your SAP onto SUSE Linux Enterprise server, and managing your IT environment
• An understanding of virutalization technologies to determine how you can best benefit
• Demonstrations of virutalization in the data center
  Next steps towards implementation

As well as...the latest research on Key IT and Business trends manufacturers face and a preview of the revolutionary SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop!