Novell announced through a press release today that the long awaited SUSE Studio is finally available for production use, along with a host of other capabilities and tools to help make it easier to develop appliances based on SUSE Linux Enterprise. These offerings include:

1. SUSE Studio Online - web-based appliance building tool
2. SUSE Linux Enterprise JeOS - micro foundation for SUSE based appliances
3. SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for Amazon EC2 - you can now run SLES on the Amazon EC2 cloud
4. Go-to-market support for ISVs
5. Technical preview of the SUSE Appliance Toolkit

Full press release