“IBM, Computer Associates and BMC will announce products this
week that should help customers manage Linux applications on
mainframes.”
“At the SHARE user conference last week, IBM gave details on a
mainframe application that will let customers install hundreds of
copies of Linux without requiring extensive mainframe programming
skills, while CA and BMC will introduce software for managing
S/390-based Linux applications, and security and storage
functions.”
“These announcements are a good sign that system management
vendors are taking Linux in the enterprise seriously, says
David Boyes, a Linux on mainframe user and engineer with Dimension
Enterprises, a data center design and testing firm in Herndon, Va.
“As more application vendors and enterprises embrace Linux, all the
system management vendors will ultimately have to support the full
range of their products – both clients and servers – on Linux. The
announcements from CA and BMC are the beginning of that move.”