7-Eleven Lowers Technology Costs With IBM and Trustix Linux Solutions
7-Eleven Lowers Technology Costs With IBM and Trustix Linux Solutions
San Jose, CA - August 13th, 2002 - Trustix, Inc., an emerging force in
the adoption of Linux technology in the enterprise, today announced that
7-Eleven, a worldwide leader in convenience retailing, has deployed the
Trustix Linux Solutions (TLS) suite on IBM Intel-based servers.
7-Eleven²s initial deployment is running the Trustix Mail Server with
AntiVirus scanning on an IBM eServer xSeries to scan e-mail for viruses
before distributing it internally to all staff and employees throughout
the 7-Eleven computer network.
7-Eleven Says "Oh Thank Heaven" for Linux Since 1927, 7-Eleven has been
a leader in convenience retailing. Today, more than 21,000 stores
worldwide make customers say, "Oh Thank Heaven for 7-Eleven!" 7-Eleven
was interested in lowering technology ownership costs and management
complexity by migrating applications to the Linux platform.
"We had long recognized the major cost saving potential of adopting
Linux within the 7-Eleven enterprise; introducing Trustix Linux
Solutions in our IT infrastructure on the IBM platform confirms this.
Our good experience so far means that we will spend considerably more
time working with Linux in the future." said Terje Eriksen, head of IT
department, 7-Eleven. "Trustix offered a wide range of Linux
infrastructure solutions that combined supreme ease of use and long-term
extensibility, with the reliability of the IBM eServer xSeries
platform."
"We expect that our costs of technology ownership will decrease
dramatically by introducing Trustix Linux Solutions," added Terje
Eriksen of 7-Eleven.
"7-Eleven's gratifying experience with the Trustix Linux Solution suite
is typical of what we hear from our customers worldwide," noted Havard
Wollan, CEO of Trustix, Inc. "We are excited by 7-Eleven's results, and
won't be surprised to learn that their Cost of Ownership savings exceed
their highest expectations."
About Trustix
The Trustix Linux Solutions (TLS) suite offered by Trustix (San Jose,
CA) is the first-and-only comprehensive solution set for enterprises
seeking to benefit from the lower cost, flexibility, reliability and
openness of the Linux operating system - without sacrificing the
simplicity and functionality of Windows products. Spanning
single-function infrastructure appliances to enterprise-grade business
applications running on high availability server clusters, all
components of Trustix TLS can be managed from any network-attached
client workstation via its award-winning XPloy product, a modular
systems and application management framework for Linux.
IBM, eServer, xSeries are all registered trademarks of IBM in the US and
other countries. Intel is a trademark of Intel Corporation. Linux is a
trademark of Linus Torvalds.
Media contact
Melissa Lohnes
Sterling Hager, Inc.
Telephone: 415.591.8409
melissa@sterlinghager.com
