Computer Associates and Red Hat Announce Far-Reaching Agreement to Accelerate Adoption of Linux in Corporate IT Environments.ISLANDIA, N.Y./RESEARCH TRIANGLE, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 2, 1999-- CA And Red Hat Will Distribute One Million Copies Of Unicenter TNG TNG Training TNG The Next Generation TNG Tongue TNG The Newspaper Guild (Union) TNG Transitional National Government TNG Telescopio Nazionale Galileo (national facility of the Italian astronomical community) Framework Bundled With Red Hat Linux Red Hat Linux, assembled by Red Hat, was a popular, "middle-aged" Linux distribution (not as old as Slackware but older than Ubuntu) upon its discontinuation in 2004.[1] Red Hat Linux 1.0 was released on November 3, 1994. Computer Associates International, Inc. (CA) and Red Hat Software, Inc. today announced an agreement to aggressively accelerate adoption of Red Hat Linux in corporate IT environments. Under the agreement, CA will develop versions of Unicenter TNG, including the Unicenter TNG Framework, to support Red Hat Linux, bringing a new level of manageability to this increasingly popular platform. CA will produce and distribute without charge 500,000 copies of Unicenter TNG Framework for Red Hat Linux. Similarly, Red Hat will distribute another 500,000 copies of the Unicenter TNG Framework and associated management APIs with its Linux Application CD. "The combination of Red Hat's focused support and CA's Unicenter TNG enterprise management technology is exactly the vote of confidence needed for IT decision-makers to move ahead with Linux," said Richard L. Ptak, vice president, systems and applications management, Hurwitz Group. "Traditional corporate IT can adopt Linux as a strategic platform, knowing that it has the support of technology leaders." In addition to distributing one million free copies of the jointly bundled product, under the terms of the agreement: -- CA will promote Red Hat's Linux Commercial Server Edition as the supported platform for Unicenter TNG's product family, and Red Hat will advocate the use of Unicenter TNG as a premier management solution for Linux. -- Both companies will participate in cooperative marketing activities, including joint advertising, seminars and sales programs. -- The companies will appoint sales representatives to collaborate and promote the use of Red Hat Linux and Unicenter TNG within enterprise accounts. Also, the companies will cooperate on mutual customer referrals, joint promotion of Red Hat's Commercial Server Edition of Linux and inclusion of the Unicenter TNG Framework and management APIs on Red Hat's Linux Applications CD. -- CA will promote Red Hat's support benefits for enterprise customers. -- The companies will assign technical resources from both companies to collaborate on solution offerings. -- Both companies will enable customers to request the bundled offering through their respective Web sites. "CA's global market reach and extensive relationships with top-tier corporate customers makes them a valuable ally in our efforts to promote the benefits of Linux," said Robert Young Robert Young or Bob Young may refer to several different people:
Young noted that CA's distribution of half a million CDs with Red Hat Linux represents the single largest promotional campaign in the company's history. "It's not only the quantity of copies, it's the quality of who will be receiving them," he said. "We expect to see a major influx of new Linux customers from this effort." In addition, CA and Red Hat are working together to meet the technical requirements of enterprise Linux users by providing automatic discovery of Linux resources, integrated management of Linux-based assets, and integrated processing and correlation of Linux systems events. The companies will also work together to help allow Linux-related management frameworks and associated APIs to remain open and extensible to third-party vendors. "CA clients in all market segments are showing a strong interest in Linux, but require management capabilities and support services support services Psychology Non-health care-related ancillary services–eg, transportation, financial aid, support groups, homemaker services, respite services, and other services to successfully implement this increasingly popular operating system operating system (OS) Software that controls the operation of a computer, directs the input and output of data, keeps track of files, and controls the processing of computer programs. into their enterprise environments," said Marc Sokol, CA senior vice president and general manager, global marketing. "Our partnership with Red Hat will help our clients pursue the benefits of an open source code platform within the context of mission-critical distributed computing (1) The use of multiple computers networked throughout a wide geographical area, or the world via the Internet, in order to solve a single problem. See grid computing. (2) The use of multiple computers in an enterprise rather than one centralized system. . The combination of Unicenter TNG and Red Hat Linux software and support comprise an extremely compelling solution for our clients." CA and Red Hat announced their strategic partnership at Linux World in San Jose San Jose, city, United States San Jose (sănəzā`, săn hōzā`), city (1990 pop. 782,248), seat of Santa Clara co., W central Calif.; founded 1777, inc. 1850. , Calif., an event for Linux-related products and services. The announcement follows CA's launch of Ingres II See Ingres 2006. for Linux, which features an innovative open beta program. CA plans to make additional announcements concerning the Linux marketplace in the near future. About Unicenter TNG Framework The Unicenter TNG Framework is the only framework to provide "out-of-the-box" support for a broad range of hardware platforms Each hardware platform, or CPU family, has a unique machine language. All software presented to the computer for execution must be in the binary coded machine language of that CPU. Following is a list of the major hardware platforms in existence today. See platform. and sophisticated framework technologies, such as object repository, auto discovery and 2D and 3D GUI (Graphical User Interface) A graphics-based user interface that incorporates movable windows, icons and a mouse. The ability to resize application windows and change style and size of fonts are the significant advantages of a GUI vs. a character-based interface. . The Unicenter TNG Framework supports the full portfolio of desktop management standards, including DMTF/DMI 2.0 and IETF/SNMP. The software is the underlying foundation for Unicenter TNG, the only fully-integrated management solution covering network discovery, topology, performance, events and status, security, software distribution, storage, workload, help desk, change management and other functions for the heterogeneous enterprise. About Linux Linux is the cooperatively developed POSIX-oriented, multi-user, multi-tasking operating system used worldwide. Linux is strongly differentiated from virtually all other operating systems Operating systems can be categorized by technology, ownership, licensing, working state, usage, and by many other characteristics. In practice, many of these groupings may overlap. because it is "open source" software, with the source code freely available to all users. Unlike binary-only operating systems that restrict access to the source code, Linux benefits from a worldwide community of highly experienced programmers and technically savvy academics who have the access to enhance and improve the system. Linux is used as an exceptional-value, fully functional UNIX UNIX Operating system for digital computers, developed by Ken Thompson of Bell Laboratories in 1969. It was initially designed for a single user (the name was a pun on the earlier operating system Multics). workstation for Internet servers and other applications. Red Hat Linux is maintained as "freely distributable" software available from many sites on the Internet. About Red Hat(R) Software, Inc. Founded in 1994, Red Hat Software is based in Research Triangle Park Research Triangle Park, research, business, medical, and educational complex situated in central North Carolina. It has an area of 6,900 acres (2,795 hectares) and is 8 × 2 mi (13 × 3 km) in size. Named for the triangle formed by Duke Univ. , NC, where it builds and maintains the award-winning Red Hat Linux operating system. Working in cooperation with a huge development team of research, academic, and commercial software developers over the Internet, Red Hat's goal is to build the most accessible and advanced operating system available anywhere. Red Hat Linux for Intel(R), DEC Alpha See Alpha. (processor) DEC Alpha - A RISC microprocessor from DEC. In November 1995, the Alpha was purportedly the fastest non-research chip used in commonly available workstations. It is superpipelined and superscalar. (tm), and Sun SPARC (Scalable Performance ARChitecture) A family of RISC CPUs from Sun that runs mostly under Sun's Solaris, but also under Linux and BSD operating systems. After development began in the mid-1980s by David Patterson of the University of California at Berkeley and Bill (R) platforms continues to gain recognition in the computer industry: From 1996 to the present, Red Hat Linux was named InfoWorld's Product of the Year for three straight years, was given a Productivity accolade in Software Development's "Jolt" Awards, was named an Environment/Desktop finalist in the Ziff-Davis European Excellence Awards, won the editor's choice awards from both the Linux Journal Linux Journal is a monthly magazine published by Belltown Media, Inc. of Houston, Texas. The magazine has been published since March 1994. Linux Journal and Australian Personal Computing Magazines, and won the "Just Plain Cool Award." About Computer Associates Computer Associates International, Inc. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange : CA), the world leader in mission-critical business computing, provides software, support and integration services in more than 100 countries around the world. CA has more than 13,000 employees and had revenue of $5.1 billion in calendar year 1998. For more information about CA, please call 516-342-5224 or email info@cai.com. CA's World Wide Web address is www.cai.com. All referenced product names are trademarks of their respective companies. |
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