Linuxcare to Provide Amdahl With Backline Support, Professional Services
and Training
Dec 14th, 21:11 UTC
Amdahl Secures Linuxcare Expertise for its Enterprise Linux Market Initiative
SAN FRANCISCO, December 14, 1999-Linuxcare, Inc., a premier vendor of Linux
technical services to the enterprise, today announced an agreement with
Amdahl to deliver key services and support to Amdahl's enterprise Linux
customers and technical staff. The announcement comes on the heels of
Amdahl's announcement of global, mission-critical, enterprise support for
Linux.
Linuxcare's Technical Support Business Unit will provide backline support
to top-level Amdahl customer-service engineers. Linuxcare's Professional
Services Business Unit will provide a range of consulting services to
Amdahl, and the Linuxcare University Business Unit will offer on-site
training to Amdahl technical staff.
"Amdahl customers are increasingly interested in applying the benefits of
Linux and Open Source solutions to enterprise computing," said Jim Graham,
Vice President and General Manager of Worldwide Product Support Services at
Amdahl. "With the addition of Linuxcare experts to our team we can bring a
wide range of industrial-strength support capabilities to mission-critical
enterprise customers who are adopting the Linux operating system."
"Linuxcare's customer services infrastructure is second to none," said Pat
Lambs, vice president of services for Linuxcare. "We believe our philosophy
of pooling brainpower across the world to accomplish the most challenging
tasks-and transferring technical knowledge to our customers and
partners-establishes a model for continued success. We are well equipped to
meet the demands of Amdahl's customers and look forward to working closely
with Amdahl to further the advancement of Linux and Open Source solutions
in the enterprise."
Linux support is part of Amdahl's strategic focus to help its enterprise
customers build their Internet infrastructure on Linux. Linuxcare helps
Amdahl advance this mission by providing the deepest Linux expertise as
well as breakthrough Web-based support and services.
About Amdahl Corporation Amdahl Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of
Fujitsu Limited, provides integrated computing solutions that meet the
needs of many of the largest users of information technology in the world.
Amdahl develops and deploys systems, services and support that meet the
needs of the world's most compute-intensive organizations and environments.
With more than 28 years of experience delivering large-scale computing and
client/server technology, the Amdahl mission is to deliver innovative
systems, services and support to lead customers to the most complete and
powerful data centers of the 21st century.
About Linuxcare, Inc.
Linuxcare, Inc. is the leading provider of customer
services for enterprise Linux environments, including technical support,
professional services, education, and product certification. Linuxcare
supports all major distributions of Linux and leading Linux-based
enterprise solutions on all major hardware platforms. With funding from
Kleiner Perkins, Patricof & Co. Ventures and others, Linuxcare counts Dell
Computer, IBM, and Sun Microsystems among its strategic partners. The
company hosts www.linuxcare.com, the
world's leading online technical support resource for Linux. Founded in
1998, Linuxcare is headquartered in San Francisco. The company can be
reached at +01-415-354-4878. Japanese information regarding Linuxcare
services is now available through jpinfo@linuxcare.com .
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Linuxcare and Linuxcare logo are service marks, and "At the center of
Linux" is a trademark of Linuxcare, Inc. Linux is a registered trademark of
Linus Torvalds. All other trademarks are acknowledged.
Amdahl is a registered trademark of Amdahl Corporation. Fujitsu is a
registered trademark of Fujitsu Limited.
Contact:
Antenna Group
Grace Lee
(415) 977-1929
grace@antennapr.com
or
Amdahl
Golin/Harris International
Emanuala Cariolagian
(213) 623-4200
ecariolagian@golinharris.com
(Submitted by Jill A. Pagliaro of Antenna Group, Inc.)
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