The migration center, which is based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, will focus on helping existing users of Sun Microsystems’ Solaris operating system to evaluate the move to Unisys’s ES7000 Intel-based servers running Novell’s SLES Linux distribution.
The migration center is part of a global agreement Unisys struck with Waltham, Massachusetts-based Novell in February 2005 that certified SLES running on the ES7000 servers.
Until August 2004 Unisys was strictly a Microsoft partner when it came to its ES7000 Intel-based servers, but it eventually accepted that Linux was not only a viable alternative, but a potential valuable weapon its battle to persuade potential customers to move from RISC-based Unix servers to its Intel-based machines.
As well as Novell, Unisys is also working with its rival Linux distributor Red Hat and offers Red Hat Enterprise Linux across its full line of servers.
