Open Country Enhances Systems Management Suite.

Adds New Features, Support for Ubuntu and 64-bit Platforms

BELMONT, Calif. -- Open Country, the next-generation systems management software company, today announced it has enhanced its award-winning OCM[TM] Universal Systems Management Suite with new features for massive enterprise environments. Additionally, OCM now supports the popular Ubuntu Linux distribution and 64-bit Intel and AMD platforms.

OCM provides organizations with a simple, affordable solution, enabling administrators to effectively provision, manage, monitor, and maintain Linux-based servers, desktops, blades and appliances. With this release, OCM now scales to thousands of systems, making management from a single web-based console quick and easy. Open Country has enhanced OCM's asset discovery features to give administrators a comprehensive view of hardware and software installed across the enterprise. Administrators can easily compare systems and track hardware and software changes. A new software search capability finds systems that have a specific version of software installed so that patches can be quickly applied.

Open Country also becomes the first commercial software vendor to offer a systems management solution for Ubuntu Linux. OCM now supports both server and desktop versions of Ubuntu 6.06 LTS. Open Country adds Ubuntu to its industry-leading list of over 30 supported Linux distributions, which includes offerings from Red Hat, Novell, Debian, Fedora, CentOS, Asianux, Red Flag, Haansoft, Co-Create, CS2C, Miracle Linux, Turbulinux, and Mandriva.

OCM also has added support for the latest high performance 64-bit Intel Xeon and AMD Opteron Linux systems. Now systems administrators have a single management interface to effectively manage their choice of Linux running in full 64-bit mode alongside the rest of their system configurations.

"Increasingly, large scale Linux deployments require different Linux distributions to support severs, appliances, desktops, laptops and high-performance 64-bit systems," said Laurent Gharda, COO of Open Country. "OCM scales vertically to manage large numbers of systems, and horizontally, by supporting the widest range of Linux distributions in the industry. By adding Ubuntu and support for 64-bit Linux on both Intel and AMD, we extend the number of platforms our customers can manage and offer them freedom to choose the best Linux distributions for their needs."

To receive a free evaluation copy of OCM go to http://www.opencountry.com/about/register.html

About Open Country

Open Country helps organizations significantly simplify the management of existing enterprise Linux systems. The majority of IT costs involve repeated problem solving across the enterprise or from one enterprise to the next. Open Country enables IT managers to solve a problem once and effectively leverage the solutions across the organization. Open Country's OCM[TM] Universal Systems Management Suite, which won the Linux Journal 2006 Product Excellence award at LinuxWorld, supports the largest number of Linux distributions in the industry. By eliminating "lock-in" to one software platform, Open Country OCM[TM] helps customers choose the best and most cost-effective options to power their enterprise. Open Country is the exclusive sponsor of Webmin, the popular open source systems administration tool. Open Country is based in Belmont, Calif. For additional information, visit www.opencountry.com.