This partnership includes certification of PATROL by BMC Software on SuSE Linux v7.2 and future marketing and development plans for PATROL on the SuSE Linux platform.
BMC Software is a recognized leader in the enterprise IT management market, therefore making them an excellent choice for our partnership and certification program, said Holger Dyroff, director of sales, SuSE Linux, Oakland, California. Customers using SuSE Linux are now assured that PATROL will deliver the highest quality management for our complete line of products.
Certification on the SuSE Linux platform is another step in BMC Software’s mission of Assuring Business Availability® for its customers by delivering the infrastructure and service management solutions that manage and monitor mission-critical applications, databases, and e-business solutions. BMC Software supports Linux across the enterprise both on the mainframe and distributed systems. Also available on the Linux platform is an open source solution from BMC Software, which allows companies experimenting with Linux for the mainframe to include systems management in their evaluation.
BMC Software is committed to delivering management for the platforms that our customers use for their mission-critical enterprises, said Carl Coken, vice president and general manager, PATROL Platform solutions, BMC Software. Our customers can be assured that PATROL is tightly integrated and fully certified on the SuSE Linux platform. As a SuSE partner, we will be working together on future endeavors in order to quickly support upcoming versions of SuSE Linux.
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