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By Tim Little -- Joe McGrath, President and COO of Unisys Enterprise computing Division is extremely confident in his company’s ability to bring the right tools to the Linux market. As they did in the Window’s High Performance arena, Unisys is now looking to add big value to users of the ever expanding Linux market. Leveraging on the scientifically advanced ES7000 server platform and Linux OS, Unisys has developed a self partitioning OS feature for the main-stream production clientele. The self partitioning software is currently production ready for the Intel based servers and allows for no human interaction to balance processor load during peak processing cycles. The ability of the Linux / Intel based system to self realize the users compute needs and dynamical assign processing power to demanding application allows for an efficient use of system resources. According to McGrath – the enterprise computing users are demanding “industrial-strength” Linux solution and Unisys is answering this call in a revolutionary way. With this type of innovate support theES7000 line of servers, Unisys can easily compete with of the vendors from the traditional Unix/Risc bases. Customers looking to unload their heavily burdened Unix/Risc base systems can now turn one of the long time industry leaders for a far superior computing solution. Richard Dracott – Intel’s General Manager of Enterprises Marketing and Planning has worked with Unisys for some time now. Dracott reaps the benefit of working with a company having 50 plus years of experience in the high performance computing business. Unisys has always been on the leading edge of price/performance and has shown remarkable advancements in the Linux environments on the both the Intel Xeon and Intanium 2 processors – stated Dracott. Partnered with Novel’s SUSE Linux, McGrath knows his efforts in the Linux market are going to pay off. Companies like Novell have been around a long time and know the value of working with solid well run operations. When Unisys became serious about the Linux enterprise business segment one can be assured they will be there until their products are rivaled by the rest of the market.