SCO and TurboLinux recently announced a worldwide services initiative that will provide TurboLinux customers with Linux Professional Consulting Services from SCO.
Under the initiative, TurboLinux will offer their customers Linux Professional Consulting Services from SCO. SCO's Professional Services organization will support TurboLinux customers in planning, cost analysis and deployment of their TurboLinux systems. SCO will also develop specific service offerings for the newly announced TurboCluster Server. The companies plan to begin offering the services by late November, 1999,
"SCO has more than 250 world-class engineers who offer comprehensive insight into the technology and deployment issues for the enterprise," said Cliff Miller, CEO of TurboLinux. "With SCO's comprehensive Linux professional service offerings and their deep knowledge of clustering, we believe our customers will benefit from SCO's expertise in deploying their TurboLinux enterprise solutions."
"SCO has more than 20 years of experience with UNIX systems and Intel-based architectures and understands customer requirements for enterprise-computing," said Mike Orr, senior vice president of worldwide Marketing at SCO. "Our Global Services organization is strong and growing rapidly with the rise in UNIX and Linux implementations. TurboLinux's customers now will have the benefit of a global professional services organization to support their deployments."
In August of this year SCO announced a comprehensive set of Linux and Open Source-related professional services. As a corporate sponsor of Linux International, SCO is a strong proponent of the Open Source movement and has contributed source code to the Open Source community including OpenSAR and lxrun. SCO UnixWare 7 operating system supports Linux applications as part of its development platform. See www.sco.com/linux for more on SCO's Linux and Open Source activity.
TurboCluster Server, the first commercial Linux software clustering solution, offers high availability, scalability and improved performance by allowing customers to cluster as many as 30 Intel architecture servers as a single virtual server. It is most commonly deployed as a web clustering server but also supports mail, news and most other TCP/IP applications. It has been tested at more than 400 corporate sites in North America.
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