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Xandros Announces Broad Series of Cross-Platform Management Packs at Microsoft TechEd Show
New Xandros BridgeWays Management Packs Enable Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007 to Administer Enterprise Applications on Windows, Linux and UNIX
| Source: Xandros, Inc.
BARCELONA, SPAIN--(Marketwire - November 3, 2008) - Microsoft TechEd -- Xandros, the leader
in making Windows and Linux work together, today announced an extended line
of BridgeWays Management Packs that enable system administrators to monitor
and manage 13 enterprise applications on Windows, Linux and UNIX from a
single console. BridgeWays Management Packs are designed to help extend the
cross platform monitoring capabilities of the Microsoft System Center
Operations Manager 2007 R2 to heterogeneous environments. Xandros today
released a beta Management Pack for Oracle Database Server, together with
updates to previous betas for Apache and MySQL. Developed under the broad
collaboration agreement between Microsoft and Xandros, more cross-platform
management packs will follow shortly, including IBM DB2 Database Server,
Oracle Application Server, IBM WebSphere, JBoss, Tomcat, BlackBerry
Enterprise Server, Sendmail, Postgres Database Server, Postfix, and VMWare
ESX. The entire series of BridgeWays Management Packs for the Red Hat
Enterprise server, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, UNIX, and Windows, will be
released in sync with the general availability of the System Center
Operations Manager 2007 R2 release.
"Customers' environments are often comprised of a variety of operating
systems and applications, but they want a single solution for managing and
monitoring across their Windows, UNIX and Linux infrastructures, such as is
delivered by the beta of System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2," said
Larry Orecklin, General Manager, System Center and Virtualization Marketing
at Microsoft. "By working closely with us and applying their expertise in
open source, Xandros is playing a key role in extending the management
benefits of System Center to heterogeneous environments and applications
such as Apache, MySQL and now Oracle Database Server running on these
various platforms."
"Our initial cross-platform BridgeWays Management Packs received an
overwhelming response from hundreds of enterprises, with requests to extend
our services to most mission-critical services. We are proud to announce a
broad-and-deep extension of our BridgeWays line to enable system
administrators to centrally manage 13 key enterprise applications on
heterogeneous platforms," said Andreas Typaldos, CEO of Xandros. "Thanks to
the cross platform monitoring capabilities in System Center Operations
Manager 2007 R2, we are able to quickly go to market with management packs
for a diversity of applications and platforms tailored to our knowledge of
real-world customer experiences, gained during extensive beta tests."
Showcased at Microsoft TechEd EMEA
The Management Packs betas for Oracle Database Server, Apache and MySQL,
along with a preview of BridgeWays for VMWare ESX, are showcased at the
Xandros stand, no. 6, in the Microsoft Systems Center Partner Pavilion at
the Microsoft TechEd EMEA IT Professionals Conference in Barcelona, Spain,
November 3-7. The beta software is also available as a free download for
testing and review from the Xandros web site at
https://shop.xandros.com/beta/bmp/index.php.
About Xandros
Xandros is the leader in enabling Linux and Windows to work together. The
company's enterprise products leverage an organization's existing skill
sets by providing seamless Windows-Linux interoperability. Scalix delivers
award-winning Linux-based email, calendaring and messaging. BridgeWays
management packs simplify managing mixed Windows, Linux and UNIX
environments from one console. Custom, integrated netbook and application
store solutions allow OEMs to get to market quickly with an end-to-end user
experience. The company is headquartered in New York, with R&D offices in
Ottawa, Frankfurt, Bracknell, and Mumbai, and sales and support offices
worldwide. For more information, please visit www.xandros.com.
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