NetDirector offers a Powerful Open Source Configuration Management Tool for Solaris OS

Cary, North Carolina - June 28, 2006 - Emu Software is pleased to announce the availability of their NetDirector Agent for Sun Solaris operating systems. NetDirector users wishing to manage their native UNIX services (Apache, BIND, Samba, Sendmail, Users and Groups, etc) running on Solaris can now download from SourceForge (http://sourceforge.net/projects/netdirector) the NetDirector Beta Agents for their Solaris x86 and SPARC architectures. In combination with NetDirector's broad support for Linux, the availability of Solaris support enables mixed Linux/Solaris shops to more securely and efficiently manage their environments.

Don St. John from Server Pipeline mentions Emu in his blog entry,

"Mark Hinkle, VP of business development at founder member Emu Software, told me that the consortium is aiming for anything but a top-down approach. "In a typical consortium, a bunch of vendors come together and try to figure out how they can market their products; you can participate, but it;s based around their approach," he said. "We're more interested in starting a conversation; we like to think ours is a little more democratic right from the start."

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Company to Demonstrate New NetDirector Interface to Red Hat Network

Cary, NC – May 17, 2006 – Emu Software, a commercial open source configuration management vendor and sponsor of the Second Annual Red Hat Summit, will use the Summit to unveil the soon-to-be-released Red Hat Network (RHN) module for their NetDirector product.  The module provides seamless integration between RHN's patching and provisioning and NetDirector's multi-server configuration management capabilities.

Timothy Pritchett Morgan wrote an article titled, "Open Management Consortium to Drive Tool Integration" where he validates the needs for open source management tools.

"While this is all a necessary first step, in the long run, OMC will likely be the forge for a sophisticated systems management toolset. The members of the OMC took great pains to not position themselves against IBM's Tivoli, CA's Unicenter, and Hewlett-Packard's OpenView tools, which are the big three in systems management. "Replacement is not the goal--but integration with existing tools is," said Hinkle. While this is true, small and medium businesses don't use these big system management frameworks. They pay administrators to use all kinds of tools and write scripts and baby-sit machines."
 

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