Open Country Sponsors Webmin

Open Country Sponsors Popular Webmin Graphical Systems Administration  
Tool

   Commits to Improving Webmin as an Open Project and Increasing  
Appeal With
                       Professional Services and Support

SAN FRANCISCO, LINUXWORLD, BOOTH #956, Aug. 9  -- Open Country, a  
leading provider of Linux systems management tools, today announced  
that it is sponsoring Webmin, a major Open Source web-based systems  
administration console with over 1.4 million downloads in the last year.

     Open Country plans to improve Webmin as an open project and in  
addition, will offer professional services and support, further  
broadening Webmin's appeal and use throughout the Linux community.  
Webmin project founder and architect Jamie Cameron will join Open  
Country's development team as Architect and Project Leader.

     "Open Country recognizes the importance of the Open Source  
movement and continues to be actively engaged in Open Source  
funding," said Michael Grove, CEO of Open Country.  "By sponsoring  
Webmin, Open Country can help insure that this valuable  
administration tool continues to thrive and remain Open Source.  
Through offering services and support, and providing links to  
advanced open and commercial products, enterprise customers win too."

     Webmin, designed for managing individual systems without the  
need for a command line interface complements Open Country's OC- 
Manager scalable enterprise systems management software which is  
ideal for managing hundreds of systems from a single interface.  
Currently, OC-Manager incorporates a portion of Webmin to perform  
single system management functions with plans to integrate Webmin's  
strengths and select future enhancements to advance OC-Manager.

     "With sponsorship by Open Country, Webmin gains secure funding  
which provides a greater opportunity to focus on continued  
development," said Cameron.  "Open Country understands the challenges  
faced by the Linux community and is committed to delivering easy-to- 
use systems management tools required to drive global adoption."

     In addition to sponsoring Webmin, Open Country supports Open  
Source by participating in several standards organizations including  
the Open Source Development Labs (OSDL) and Linux Standards Base (LSB).

     Open Country's flagship product, OC-Manager can be implemented  
in less than a day to efficiently manage current Linux  
implementations whether there are 10 or 10,000 units deployed while  
providing a very adaptable management foundation to expand Open  
Source and other implementations of Linux. OC-Manager's web-based  
user interface empowers system administrators, even those not  
specifically trained in Linux, to easily perform critical tasks  
including provisioning, monitoring, backup and restore, software and  
patch management, and disaster recovery.

About Webmin
     Webmin, like many great projects, grew out of a need.  Barraged  
with requests at work for performing relatively simple administration  
tasks, Jamie Cameron created a Web-based interface that evolved into  
Webmin, a platform for adding systems administration tools. Webmin  
has over 100 standard modules and 200 more contributed by the Open  
Source community.  Today, Webmin is the number four download on  
sourceforge.net in the systems administration category with over 1.4  
million downloads in the last year.  For more information visit  
http://www.webmin.com .

About Open Country
     Open Country's System Management Software creates "Open Choice"  
by providing a universal management solution for major Linux  
distributions. Open Country makes Linux distributions and software  
stacks independent of how solutions are adopted, managed and  
supported, allowing organizations to work with the best available and  
most cost effective solutions. With OC-Manager (TM), all basic system  
management functions such as provisioning, software deployment, asset  
management, backup and restore and remote help desk support are  
provided in a single dashboard so that even a novice administrator  
can use them. With support for 15 leading Linux distributions, Open  
Country is helping expand the worldwide adoption of Linux in the  
enterprise. For more
information, visit http://www.opencountry.com


Wendy Grubow
831-626-7503