IBM Achieves Major "Linux on POWER" Milestone

from sales to aftersales. DCSnet is a powerful yet easy-to-use solution which provides customers with the ability to maximize profitability, minimize inefficiencies and deliver customer care to an exceptional standard by ensuring that everyone in a dealership is working from the same information. The Reynolds and Reynolds company is one of the world's leading suppliers of IT solutions and services to the automotive retail sector.

Centric CRM

Centric CRM is a robust, open-source, J2EE Java-based Customer Relationship Management (CRM) solution architected for reliability, scalability and ease of use and maintenance. Centric CRM allows organizations to be world class in the methods by which they interact with customers and other stakeholders while leveraging the emerging world of open technologies. The Centric CRM reference architecture is tuned to run on IBM System p servers, IBM open source middleware and Novell's open technology platform. The software stack includes IBM WebSphere Application Server Community Edition and IBM DB2 Express-C running on SUSE Linux Enterprise from Novell.

IBM Express Advantage Offerings Support Linux on POWER:

With today's news, IBM announces its newest Express Advantage offerings for mid-sized businesses running on the POWER architecture support the Linux operating system.

IBM System p5 Solution Edition Express for mySAP ERP provides a high-performing cost-effective IT infrastructure to run the SAP®, integrated enterprise resource planning (ERP) software application, mySAP ERP. Additionally, the IBM System i IP Telephony solution is the first-ever IP telephony solution designed to run on a single, easy-to-manage system along with a customer's business applications.

1. http://www.ibm.com/systems/linux/power/apps/all.html.

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Contact: Jill Holt IBM Media Relations p.914.766.4123 jolt@us.ibm.com

SOURCE:  IBM

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