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eWeek: HP cooking up big plans for LinuxWorld

“Continuing to firm up its commitment to Linux, Hewlett Packard
Co. will announce a range of new products and services at the
LinuxWorld conference next week in New York. HP will
demonstrate its upcoming Linux system manageability software
,
called ProcessResource Manager (or PRM) and ServiceControl Manager
(or SCM), at the conference, as well as two Web hosting
products
, Netstructure 1010 and 1020, which are slated to
launch in March.”

“PRM and SCM are coming over from HP’s Unix environment and
offer proven enterprise-class system management functionality,”
said Mike Balma, director of marketing for HP’s Linux system
operations. …[and] HP will be announcing next week the
availability of Critical Systems Support for Linux clients. This
represents a commitment to deliver 24×7 runtime as well as advanced
planning services.”

“HP is also working “hand in glove” with MSC Software on
delivering Linux clusters.
“We are a worldwide VAR of HP and
engaged with them at the sales level, pursuing real business
opportunities,” said Greg Sikes, a vice president at MSC.”


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