IT Manager’s Journal: Vendors Add Linux Systems Management Functions

“Increasingly, corporations are turning to Linux servers to
support important business applications such as customer
relationship management, enterprise resource planning, ecommerce,
supply chain management, and Web sites. As the operating system
becomes the foundation for these vital applications, administrators
need system management tools that outline how well the servers are
performing and pinpoint the source of any performance problem.

“Vendors understand users’ desires for delivering these tools,
but their attempts to meet that need have produced mixed
results…”

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