Date: Tue, 10 Aug 1999 21:13:35 -0500
From: Paul Hawkins 
To: lwn@lwn.net
Subject: PRESS RELEASE: Tivoli Systems Extends Platform Support to Include
		 Linux


FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE


            Tivoli Systems Extends Platform Support to Include Linux



      Tivoli Framework and Applications to Run on Red Hat Linux Platform,

                         In Response to Customer Demand



     LINUXWORLD, SAN JOSE, Calif. -- AUGUST 10, 1999 -- 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.

     "Having been users and advocates for Linux since its first release, we have
been anxiously awaiting Tivoli's management solution for Linux," said Bjart
Kvarme, chief engineer, Center for Information Technology Services, University
of Oslo. "We currently have over 250 Linux workstations that we plan on managing
with Tivoli solutions.  Participating in the beta program to test this code will
give us the quickest opportunity to provide our Linux systems with the same
level of support we have received from Tivoli for other platforms."

     "Announcing our support for Linux is part of our overall initiative to help
organizations align IT more closely with the requirements of their business,"
said Mike Turner, vice president, Tivoli Enterprise Business Unit.  "We
understand only too well the economic pressures our customers face in trying to
deliver higher performance and greater functionality at lower cost.  Being able
to run key Tivoli products transparently on Linux, as part of an integrated yet
heterogeneous environment, will enable them to guarantee the stability and
availability of their Linux applications, in addition to simplifying the
management task."

     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.

     "As software vendors such as Netscape Communications, SAP and Oracle
announce their support for Linux, Network and Systems Management (NSM) starts to
become an important factor for enterprises to consider," said Milind Govekar,
senior research analyst for Gartner Group.  "The two important areas that affect
NSM are management of Linux and management on Linux, i.e. NSM applications for
managing Linux and NSM applications on Linux.  Through 2001, NSM applications
that use Linux as a platform of choice for managing heterogeneous computing
environments will see an increase in the installed base, in excess of 100
percent.  Enterprises should not implement NSM applications from vendors that
modify Linux OS and do not make these modifications part of the Linux
open-source-code process."

     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.

     "The power, stability and performance of the Red Hat Linux operating system
provides an ideal platform for Tivoli and other vital management solutions that
businesses rely on every day to manage their network," said Tim Buckley, senior
vice president and Chief Operating Officer at Red Hat, Inc.  "In addition,
Tivoli's support of Red Hat Linux lets large organizations easily bring the
growing number of Linux-based systems into the fold of ongoing systems
management practices."

     "As demand for Linux on Dell PowerEdge servers grows, so do our customers'
needs for cost-effective systems management solutions to help them run their
networks," said Jack Steeg, vice president, Enterprise Alliance Marketing, Dell.
"Tivoli systems management tools on Dell PowerEdge servers helps our customers
simplify and standardize systems management of their Linux networks."



Pricing and Availability

     Product pricing can be obtained from your local Tivoli sales office.
Products are available at the end of the year.



About Linux

     Linux is a free Unix-type operating system originally created by Linus
Torvalds with the assistance of developers from around the world.  Linux is an
independent POSIX implementation and includes true multitasking, virtual memory,
shared libraries, demand loading, proper memory management, TCP/IP networking
and other features consistent with Unix-type systems. Developed under the GNU
General Public License, the source code for Linux is freely available to
everyone.



About Tivoli Systems

     Tivoli Systems Inc. provides the industry's leading open, highly scalable
and cross-platform IT management solutions that span networks, systems,
applications and business-to-business e-commerce.  Leading companies around the
world use Tivoli software and Tivoli Ready products to reduce the cost and
complexity of managing networks, systems, databases and applications.
Headquartered in Austin, Texas, Tivoli is an IBM Company.  Tivoli distributes
its products worldwide through a network of global sales offices, systems
integrators, resellers and IBM sales channels.  For more information, visit
Tivoli's World Wide Web site at http://www.tivoli.com.

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