BW: Tivoli Systems Extends Platform Support To Include Linux…

“Tivoli Systems Inc. today announced details of its plan to
provide framework and application support for Linux, as previously
announced early this year. The decision to support Linux, the
world’s freely distributed open-source operating system, and the
timing of when to make these products available, was made based on
customer demand. As the industry’s leading supplier of open,
cross-platform management solutions, Tivoli has a large number
of customers with increasingly heterogeneous IT environments, to
which Linux is rapidly being added.”

“Tivoli Systems is no stranger to using Open Source products and
has been using Open Source tools, such as GNU compilers, since its
inception to develop its framework and applications. Within its
labs, Tivoli has been running the framework and certain core
applications on Linux for over a year, waiting for customer demand
to reach appropriate levels before releasing Linux support.”

“The first Tivoli product lines to support Linux will be Tivoli
Enterprise products and the Tivoli Management Suites. In addition
to the Tivoli Management Framework, applications supporting Linux
will include Tivoli Software Distribution, Tivoli Inventory, Tivoli
Distributed Monitoring, Tivoli User Administration, Tivoli Security
Management and Tivoli Enterprise Console adapters. These products
will initially support the Red Hat version of distribution, in
order to fulfill the requests of Tivoli customers. Tivoli will
support other versions of Linux and other applications in the
future as demand warrants.”

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