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DAILY NEWS AND INFORMATION FOR THE GLOBAL GRID COMMUNITY / JUNE 02, 2003: VOL. 2 NO. 22
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Systems/Enterprise:
CA UNVEILS ITS STRATEGY FOR LINUX IN GREATER CHINA
Computer Associates International Inchas reported the key messages given by
Mr. Sam Greenblatt, the senior vice president and Chief Architect of Linux
Technology Group, CA at the Linux media briefing via video conference taken
place between China, Hong Kong, Taiwan and Japan recently.
CA's Linux strategy is mainly built on customers' participation that the
company is totally committed to the Linux Platform on how CA can enable their
customers to gain benefits from this platform, especially under the complexity
of today's IT Infrastructure environment. Greenblatt said in the briefing, "In
line with Linux strategy for business: application integration, business
efficiency and control risk, CA sees the opportunity for software management
tools. We need to support application integration, no matter centralized and
decentralized, or distributed and mainframe."
In fact, Linux is being distributed by two ways: vertical scaling (on
hardware) and horizontal scaling (on software). When customers are doing
horizontal scaling with Linux, they can find out the incredible advantages of
paying less than 80% on software as they used to. The ability to scale is very
important and Linux is designed for both distributed and mainframe and
Greenblatt commented, "Linux is, probably, the best platform to both
distributed processing as well as mission-critical applications."
Greenblatt continued, "for example, the Internet Search Engine, Google is
using Linux platform for its 6,000 simultaneous processors and engines and the
benefit of horizontal scaling as well as the freedom of choice on platforms we
can experience there."
Further in controlling risk, CA adopts the approach of rapid advancement that
CA has already submitted to Open Source Community for software security
enhancement and Free Software Foundation to include CA's software to enable
security for Linux. The action is evidence to show how CA and the
organizations rallied to support Linux on the software security and
controlling risk.
"In China, CA's Linux strategy is to support and work closely with
organizations like China Institute of Software and Chinese Academy of Sciences
while community development is still the core to drive Linux popular in
China," Greenblatt said. "We are very excited of Chinese Linux Market with the
support and distribution populated by companies like Red Flag and TurboLinux."
"CA acts quickly in response to the industry and the recent move by other
vendors to Linux and our partners such as Redhat, SuSe, Samba, United Linux
show us a strong industry backing. We will continue to work closely with them
and fulfill the individual's need and choice on platforms."
About Sam Greenblatt
Sam Greenblatt is senior vice president and chief architect for Computer
Associates' Linux Technology Group. He is responsible for the cross brand
integration of Linux technology. Sam, a recognized expert in networked
computing, system management and object technology, he has served on the
graduate faculties of Temple University and LaSalle University. He holds two
US patents: 5,848,254 Object Message Passing and 5,809,238 An Object Data
Store. Currently he is involved with creating management solutions focusing on
the next generation of servers and providers (Web Services) and server
consolidation.
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