
Newer versions have a thirteen year product lifecycle (SLES 11, 12, and 15). SP1 added Docker, Shibboleth, Network Teaming, and JeOS images. SLES 12 SP1 was released on December 18, 2015.

SLES 11 SP2 included a Consistent Network Device Naming feature for Dell servers.

Service pack 4 was released in April 2011. It was supported by hardware vendors including IBM, HP, Sun Microsystems, Dell, SGI, Lenovo, and Fujitsu Siemens Computers. The initial business model was inspired by recurrent charges established in the mainframe world at this time, and innovated by Jrgen Geck and Malcom Yates.īased on customer needs and feedback as well as other evolving Linux based offerings the business model has been reworked by different people in the subsequent years until today. In April 2001, the first SLES for x86 was released. In December 2000, the first enterprise client ( Telia ) was made public. It was first released on Octoas a version for IBM S390 mainframe machines.
