SUPINFO & NOVELL partnership

Paris, 9th November 2007 - SUPINFO, the leading higher education school in information technologies in France with 28 schools worldwide and 4,500 students and NOVELL, leader in desktop and Open Source datacenter soutions, have today announced a worldwide partnership by which NOVELL's SUSE Linux Enterprise becomes a certification platform for the SUPINFO Linux curriculum.  

Volker Smid, NOVELL's Europe and Middle-Est President, said: "We are honoured to sign such a partnership, SUPINFO's outstanding reputation for providing its students with an international curriculum worldwide brings great value to our customers who will be able to take advantage of talented certified professionals on Linux by NOVELL trained on the most comprehensive Linux platform available today on the market."

Olivier Comes, SUPINFO's International Development Director, declared: "this partnership with NOVELL comes within the framework of the SUPINFO strategy to validate its students proficiency with professional certifications which match the market's needs as well as  to guarantee the homogeneity of our students' skills internationally. With NOVELL, we will be able to train our students in a professional Linux environment and certify them on the NOVELL Certified Linux Professional certification, the same certification offered to professionals worldwide."

About NOVELL

NOVELL, Inc. (Nasdaq: NOVL) supplies infrastructure sofware for the Open Entreprise. NOVELL is the leader on the Linux operating system from desktop to datacenter and on heterogeneous ITC seucurity ans systems management software. NOVELL helps its customers lower costs, manage complexity and mitigate risk, allowing them to focus on business innovation and growth. For more information  www.novell.com