| Open Country releases new Linux software management tool |
Jul. 12, 2004
Open Country formally launched its system management solution for Linux today. The company says the product is designed to help small departments with as few as five Linux systems, and enterprises with up to 5,000 Linux installations, reduce the costs, time, and complexity of managing Linux IT operations.
"OC-Manager's ability to support multiple versions of Linux makes it particularly attractive to enterprises that are moving towards Linux, but want to maintain the flexibility to support multiple versions of Linux in a managed environment," said Peter Nauenberg, Global Offering Director for Desktop Linux at EDS. Nauenberg said that EDS suggested a number of the functional requirements in OC-Manager and participated in quality testing.
The new Belmont, CA-based company, which offered a preview of its product late last week to the community, says that its software management tool significantly lowers the TCO of running Linux systems and provides key system management functions. OC-Manager performs bare-metal operating system provisioning, software and patch management, hardware and software asset management, backup and restore, remote system administration, and remote desktop takeover functions, the company says. A complete list of product features and screenshots is available here.
Priced from US $9 per system per month, OC-Manager manages popular RPM-based Linux distributions from SuSE, Sun JDS, Red Hat, Fedora, Mandrake, and even legacy software from these same vendors, all running on the same network, according to the product's specifications. Open Country says its products adapt to an organization's existing infrastructure and offer companies a strategy to manage Linux without having to worry about retraining or investing in new IT administrators.
A free trial of the software is available here.
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