Xandros BridgeWays announced

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Xandros Reshapes Enterprise IT Landscape with
Next-Generation Management Tools and Windows-Linux Integration Platform
 
Xandros BridgeWays Provides Intelligent, "Single Pane of Glass"
Cross-platform, Cross-service Management, Deployment, and Monitoring of Red
Hat, Oracle, Debian, Sun Solaris, Novell and other Servers and Desktops,
coupled with Windows integration
 
NEW YORK, NY -2/14/07- Xandros, the leading provider of easy-to-use Linux
desktop, server and management solutions, today announced "BridgeWays" - a
new suite of next generation, cross-platform and cross-service,
workflow-driven and rules-based, management products and integration
frameworks.  The suite enables data center managers and system
administrators, with typical Windows administration skills, to configure and
support an optimal mix of Linux, Unix, and Windows platforms, systems, and
services in today's demanding and diverse computing environments. Without
such sophisticated "bridging tools", a heterogeneous computing environment
can devolve into an unmanageable and costly-to-administer set of silo
infrastructure components. 
 
BridgeWays marks a milestone in Xandros' strategy of leveraging its
award-winning desktop, server, and mixed-environment-integration
technologies into a complete set of Linux platforms and management products.
This end-to-end product line offers powerful Linux desktop and server
platforms that uniquely fit today's IT environment, as well as the tools to
centrally administer the overall mixed-platform infrastructure as a
rationalized "whole".
 
Some Xandros BridgeWays integration technologies made their debut in the
Xandros Standard Server, which won a Best Linux Product Award last spring.
These technologies included the revolutionary "Managed Community" and
workflow-driven application dependency management tools that help prevent
problems from arising, versus the traditional approach of depending on Linux
certified engineers and support personnel to resolve problems after the
fact. 
 
"BridgeWays conjures up images of bridging an enterprise's typical
silo-oriented environments and single-point-solution management tools into a
single-pane-of-glass management, deployment, and monitoring console or
'captain's bridge'," said Andreas Typaldos, Xandros CEO. "The name further
conjures up images of easy "pathways" to connect all elements in the
enterprise infrastructure in a seamless and intuitive way. This allows the
typical enterprise infrastructure to grow in accordance with heterogeneous
business needs, without imposing the false and forced homogeneity of a
single standard. At the same time, it is managed as if it was in fact a
homogeneous single-platform-type whole."
 
"These cross-platform, cross-service, and cross-domain management tools
represent the final stage in the realization of Xandros' end-to-end next
generation Linux solutions strategy," continued Andreas Typaldos. "This
strategy seeks to leverage Xandros' historical leadership in value-add
technology and architecture, what we like to refer to as the 'Xandros
technology DNA', to facilitate server and desktop co-existence and
cross-platform management in today's typical mixed Windows and Linux or Unix
enterprise environment. Platform co-existence in these heterogeneous
enterprise environments has become ever more difficult, since they employ a
diversity of servers and desktops (Windows, Sun Solaris, Unix, Red Hat,
Oracle, Novell, and other Linux), each managed by a different tool running
on a particular host (Windows, Linux or Unix). At the same time, traditional
infrastructure system management tools and consoles (IBM Tivoli, Microsoft
MMC, CA Unicenter, HP OpenView, BMC, and others) can benefit from
integration and feeds, through tools like BridgeWays that tie such
silo-managed platforms into the general infrastructure fabric."
 
Today's IT organizations unnecessarily suffer from higher administration
costs, inefficient business processes through lack of integration, and the
inability to benefit from high-value functions like compliance, best
practices, business-rules based optimization, and application-dependencies
management. For these reasons, Xandros' mission is to unify, to
manage/eliminate complexity, and to highlight the business process over the
physical/technical layers, so as to extract the business benefit that IT can
deliver. 
 
Slated to Begin Delivery in Spring 2007:
Xandros BridgeWays for Red Hat, Oracle, Xandros and Debian, with Windows
Active Directory Integration, currently in beta, will ship in Spring 2007.
These tools apply the award-winning Xandros Managed Community model and
automated application-dependencies-management workflow to the set-up,
configuration-management, and on-going administration of the most popular
Linux servers and desktops. In addition, their sophisticated multi-tier
architecture allows the management console to run on either Windows, or
Linux. From that console, a Windows-trained administrator can then
cross-manage servers, and cross-manage services running on those servers,
regardless of the server on which the services may be running. BridgeWays
supports all of the key hardware architectures, and the initial modules
slated for its inaugural release are:
*	BridgeWays Server Management Edition
*	BridgeWays Deployment and Management Edition
*	BridgeWays Systems Monitoring Edition 
*	BridgeWays Storage Management Edition
 
Future announcements of enterprise servers and additional BridgeWays
platform availability will follow in coming months. For further details on
the Xandros BridgeWays strategy and product line, please visit
www.xandros.com
 
About Xandros: Xandros, Inc. is the leading provider of easy-to-use Linux
alternatives to Windows. Founded in 2001, Xandros pioneered low cost,
graphical operating systems that leverage existing skill sets and provide
seamless compatibility with Microsoft Windows programs and networks. It has
since expanded its Debian-based product line from standalone consumer
desktops to end-to-end enterprise desktop, server, and management solutions
featuring workflow automation and centralized, remote administration. The
company is headquartered in New York with research and development
facilities in Ottawa and Mumbai, and sales and support offices worldwide.
For more information, please visit www.xandros.com <http://www.xandros.com/>
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