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The Itanium Solutions Alliance, formed by leading enterprise and technical solutions providers Bull, Fujitsu, Fujitsu Siemens Computers, Hitachi, HP, Intel, NEC, SGI and Unisys today announced the availability of the Itanium Solutions Catalog. The Solutions Catalog provides the first comprehensive, public listing of currently-available applications and solutions supported on Itanium architecture. The Catalog, available at its Web site, is free to all users and serves as a one-stop resource of Itanium applications. All enterprise and high-performance solution vendors and organizations interested in extending the visibility of their applications can request inclusion in the Itanium Solutions Catalog. Vendors can post their applications through the Solutions Catalog application tool on the Alliance Website. "The Itanium Solutions Catalog provides a central repository of information on applications ported from a variety of sources and will include applications ported through other Alliance programs such as Developer Days and the Itanium Solutions Center Network," said Jens-Peter Seick, vice president enterprise server business, Fujitsu Siemens Computers and member of the Alliance Executive Board. "Historically, information on Itanium solutions has been fragmented across multiple vendor sites and resources. The Alliance-sponsored Catalog allows end users, specifically IT managers, to easily access and research Itanium availability and options for deployment." The Itanium Solutions Catalog is among a suite of enabling programs including Developer Days and the Itanium Solutions Center Network designed to accelerate the availability of Itanium solutions. Developer Days are Alliance-organized events in which software developers receive training, technical assistance and industry leading tools to facilitate the porting of applications to Itanium platforms. The Itanium Solutions Center Network facilitates remote porting of applications at any time by offering software developers the tools and technical support required to accelerate software ports and optimize enterprise and technical solutions. All Alliance programs provide software developers with the resources to speed application optimization for Itanium solutions. Alliance programs also support end customers by providing them with a richer set of solution alternatives.