On Monday, Microsoft announced funds to UNIX / Linux management vendors, announced joint efforts. The two sides did not disclose the specific amount, but the industry's sources said that Microsoft's investment may be less than 10 million US dollars. Vintela plays an important role in the Microsoft UNIX / Linux interoperability strategy, which is extremely like Microsoft partners.
Previously, the company once sued Microsoft with an anti-Torres method, and both parties reached an agreement in 2000 but did not announce specific details. At the same time, Vintela also has a deep foundation in UNIX / Java world. Despite the above factors, both parties will launch in-depth cooperation in terms of system management to safety. Currently, Microsoft and Vintela will jointly study Microsoft's Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS) project, which is TrustBridge, which is embedded in Microsoft's server R2, and R2 is expected to be officially launched in 2005.
In addition, Vintela will also cooperate with Microsoft on the Group Policy Management Console project. Vintela is developing a UNIX / Linux plugin for Microsoft's Operations Manager 2005. In July this year, Vintela launched a new product Vintela Management Extensions (VMX). VMX is a plugin for Microsoft System Management Server 2003 (SMS), through this plug-dwalk, Microsoft system will manage Solaris, HP-UX, AIX, Mac OS X and various Linux systems.
In addition, Vintela will cooperate with Microsoft in sales and marketing. Microsoft allows Vintela to train Microsoft Product Support (PSS) to better support VMX products.
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