OIL & GAS

HONG KONG -- Computer Associates International, Inc., today reported the key messages given by Mr. Sam Greenblatt, the Senior Vice President and Chief Architect of Linux Technology Group, CA at the Linux media briefing via video conference taken place between China, Hong Kong, Taiwan and Japan recently. CA's Linux strategy is mainly built on customers' participation that the company is totally committed to the Linux Platform on how CA can enable their customers to gain benefits from this platform, especially under the complexity of today's IT Infrastructure environment. Greenblatt said in the briefing, "In line with Linux strategy for business: application integration, business efficiency and control risk, CA sees the opportunity for software management tools. We need to support application integration, no matter centralized and decentralized, or distributed and mainframe." In fact, Linux is being distributed by two ways: vertical scaling (on hardware) and horizontal scaling (on software). When customers are doing horizontal scaling with Linux, they can find out the incredible advantages of paying less than 80% on software as they used to. The ability to scale is very important and Linux is designed for both distributed and mainframe and Greenblatt commented, "Linux is, probably, the best platform to both distributed processing as well as mission-critical applications." Greenblatt continued, "for example, the Internet Search Engine, Google is using Linux platform for its 6,000 simultaneous processors and engines and the benefit of horizontal scaling as well as the freedom of choice on platforms we can experience there." Further in controlling risk, CA adopts the approach of rapid advancement that CA has already submitted to Open Source Community for software security enhancement and Free Software Foundation to include CA's software to enable security for Linux. The action is evidence to show how CA and the organizations rallied to support Linux on the software security and controlling risk. "In China, CA's Linux strategy is to support and work closely with organizations like China Institute of Software and Chinese Academy of Sciences while community development is still the core to drive Linux popular in China," Greenblatt said. "We are very excited of Chinese Linux Market with the support and distribution populated by companies like Red Flag and TurboLinux." "CA acts quickly in response to the industry and the recent move by other vendors to Linux and our partners such as Redhat, SuSe, Samba, United Linux show us a strong industry backing. We will continue to work closely with them and fulfill the individual's need and choice on platforms."