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Clients worldwide rely on IBM Business Partners—including ISVs, resellers, and consultants and integrators—for custom and packaged applications, innovative integrated solutions with attractive terms, local expert support, hardware and software sourcing and maintenance, and much more. IBM Business Partners contribute to the success of IBM POWER™ processor-based servers and are on hand to support IBM System p™ offerings.

Over 10,000 applications are available for the IBM System p5 family of servers, including over 8,000 for AIX® and 2,700 for Linux®. And hundreds of additional open source applications from the Linux community at large. Here's what a few of our Business Partners have to say about how they can help your business leverage these popular systems—both the IBM POWER5™ processor-based System p5™ family and the new IBM POWER6™ processor-based System p 570.


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Acucorp Inc.
Aduva
Amdocs
Bynari Inc.
Callidus Software
CD-adapco
Cerner Corporation
Citrix Systems Inc.
Cognos
Comverse
Engineous Software
Ericom Software
ESRI
Future Tech Enterprise, Inc.
 
GERS Retail Systems
IBM Corporation
KANA Software, Inc.
Lakeview Technology
Lawson
Mendocino Software
Message Partners
MRO
MSC Software
Novell
Oracle Corporation
Pegasystems Inc.
 
PeopleSoft
PTC
Relavis Corporation
SAP
SAS
SER Storage Technology
SIMULIA
SSA Global
SteelEye Technology
Sterling Commerce
Sybase, Inc.
TeamQuest Corp.
Waters Corp.



Acucorp Inc.

"Acucorp proudly offers our extend® COBOL modernization solutions on IBM System p5™ with Linux™ and with AIX 5L™. These solutions enable our customers to transition their trusted COBOL assets to these high-performance, cost-effective platforms. Acucorp enables our customers to optimize existing COBOL applications on IBM platforms and integrate these with IBM software to provide an expanded set of features and functionality, all while minimizing cost, risk, time-to-deployment, and maximizing ROI. Together, Acucorp and IBM help customers become on demand businesses."

Cameron Jenkins, Vice President Strategic Partnerships

Aduva

"Aduva's customers run some of the largest and most critical global applications on the Linux OS with Aduva OnStage's Lifecycle management capabilities. We see our customers embracing the performance-enhancing characteristics of IBM Power Architecture™ technology, and IBM System p5™ Express servers' flexible virtualization options to combine virtualization and flexibility with consolidation to respond rapidly to changing business needs leveraging available computing capacity within their IT environments.

Aduva OnStage is designed to ensures error free, simple, intuitive, secure, and time saving installations, configurations, deployments, change and updates of IBM software, Open Source, commercial or custom software on System p5 Express, OpenPower Edition servers. Aduva will soon offer such support for IBM System p5 Express, AIX Edition servers as well.

In particular, Aduva OnStage in a point and click manner extends the way System p5 servers can configure, deploy and update a mix of applications to share the same processor and resources to take advantage of Micro-Partitioning™ technology, Virtual I/O and Partition Load Manager extending IBM's virtualization technology to the O/S and application."

Zev Laderman, Chairman & CEO

Amdocs

"We are pleased to offer our industry-leading telecom solutions on IBM System pTM servers. The latest IBM POWER6™ processor-based server from IBM offers the potential to deliver a highly available, high performance, low cost platform for our customers."

Gordon Rawling - Director, Strategic Alliance Marketing

Bynari Inc.

"We are pleased to offer our Email solutions on the IBM System p5 Express platform. The latest server offerings from IBM are exactly what our clients look for—affordable yet powerful capabilities for our Insight Family of products. The p5 Express offerings can provide our clients the ideal combination of performance, cost effectiveness, and flexibility in utilization management, server consolidation, and space efficiency.

In fact, Bynari takes advantage of the p5 system and virtualization technology by running our own internal applications on the system. Performance is instantaneous, and the system allows us to run multiple applications on one system. It is ideal for small and medium businesses."

Hyun Kim, President

Callidus Software

"Callidus Software continues to offer our customers the best-of-breed solutions available. Our TrueComp® Enterprise application is often running in demanding environments with high transaction volumes and short windows of run time. The IBM® System p5™ servers deliver the performance, flexibility and scalability that our customers demand. We look forward to working with IBM to provide our customer-base with this new and reliable solution."

Robert Warfield, Senior Vice President, Engineering and CTO

CD-adapco

"CD-adapco is excited about the introduction of the POWER6 processors in a blade for the BladeCenter product family. We have supported IBM AIX systems and the POWER processors for many years. We have seen excellent performance in these systems and we anticipate that our customers will see demonstrable value in this new IBM BladeCenter JS22 Express product."

Steve Feldman, Vice President
Software Development/IT

Cerner Corporation

"Cerner solutions require mission-critical capabilities such as those provided by the IBM System p™ 570 server. The new p570 system with the AIX® operating system offers unique continuous availability features for our healthcare solutions. Cerner has tested the IBM POWER6™ processor-based system and will support it for our clients on the day of availability."

Eric Stevens, Project Manager

Citrix Systems Inc.

"We are pleased to offer Citrix Presentation Server on the IBM® System p5™ platform. Our access software solution, combined with the sheer compute capability of IBM POWER5™ processors, allow any organization to centrally deploy any AIX 5L application securely, over any connection, to any device."

Mike Ballengee, Sr. Director, Business Development

Cognos

"The new IBM® System p5™ servers provide Cognos customers a solid infrastructure for running business intelligence within the enterprise. With enterprise-class security, performance, availability, scalability, and reliability on the IBM System p5 servers, Cognos customers know they can access all of their vital corporate information required to make better business decisions."

Patrick O'Leary, Vice President of Strategic Alliances

Comverse

"With the launch of the POWER6 System p 550 Express server, IBM continues their commitment to provide powerful IT platforms to help Comverse deliver innovative solutions to our customers. We have seen excellent performance in these systems and anticipate that our customers will see demonstrable value."

Howard Woolf, President, Converged Billing Solution Group

Engineous Software

“The IBM System p™ 570 server offers true on demand computing with high availability features and the ultra-high performance POWER6™ microprocessor. Our most advanced customers are driving analyses nearly 24 hours a day and they need answers as quickly as possible, with minimum downtime. These rigorous requirements make the p570 server an outstanding choice for businesses running Engineous Software’s FIPER and iSIGHT-FD products.”

JP Evans, Vice President of Marketing Communications and Product Management

Ericom Software

"We are pleased to offer PowerTerm® WebConnect, our enterprise application access and delivery solution for the IBM System p5 running Red Hat Enterprise Linux and SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server. The IBM POWER5 architecture is tuned for the Linux OS and helps our clients take advantage of inherent performance enhancing characteristics of IBM Power Architecture™ technology, as well as flexible virtualization options."

Eran Heyman, CEO

ESRI

"ESRI is very pleased to support the new IBM System p5 servers for our ArcGIS and ArcWeb Services user and developer community. Geospatial data storage and management, internet publishing of GIS maps and data, and location-aware web services demand hi-performance technology. Offering models with 1- to 16- POWER5+ processor cores, running the AIX 5L or Linux operating system, these servers provide our clients with dramatic, high performance, low-cost, and scalable hardware platforms that exceed our users needs."

Julio Olimpio, IBM Strategic Alliance Manager

Future Tech Enterprise, Inc.

"We recently used IBM's Virtual Loaner Program (VLP) to test x86 Linux applications running on Linux on POWER (LoP) with PowerVM Lx86. We installed several applications in the environment and were impressed with its features and functionality and I expect our clients will think so too", said Ken Milberg, Managing Consultant, Future Tech Enterprises. "One of my roles is to project manage System p AIX and Linux server consolidation projects. PowerVM Lx86 should help in our efforts to show customers how we can increase their return on investment (ROI) on server consolidation projects, while decreasing their total cost of ownership (TCO) in the data center. PowerVM Lx86 has the capabilities to drive Linux to the enterprise in a huge way and it certainly shows that IBM continues to lead the way in mid-range Linux innovation."

Ken Milberg, PMP
Managing Consultant, System p

GERS Retail Systems

"The new launch of the latest IBM® System p5™ models and their AIX 5L™ support is very exciting for GERS. The latest advancements, including faster CPUs and 2-, 4-, 8-, and 16-core architecture options, have true benefit to our solution and to our end customers. The System p5 family has and will continue to cover all types and sizes of our clients from small and medium business to the largest retailers in the vertical markets we serve. The continuing advancements in the line-up will make it a system of choice for many of our retail clients now and in the future. Companies like Crazy Shirts and El Dorado Furniture have already made the choice and we expect adoption to increase geometrically over the next few years."

Roy Martin, Product Manager

IBM Corporation

"IBM PowerVM and Live Partition Mobility on System p servers enable DB2 customers to better leverage their hardware investment and reduce their costs", said Arvind Krishna, Vice President Data Servers, IBM
Information Management Software, "Virtualization is a key technology in helping our clients achieve an "on demand" system. By combining DB2's self-managing features with IBM PowerVM and Live Partition Mobility capabilities, customers can utilize their server resources more efficiently, while reducing their operating costs and ultimately achieving a better ROI".

Arvind Krishna , VP Data Servers and Information Management Development

"The IBM System p™ 570 server, with its innovative IBM POWER6™ processors, provides new and exciting opportunities for our customers, which require a server platform capable of supporting 24 x 7 global operations. IBM Lotus® Notes® and Domino® has been supporting the IBM AIX® operating system since Release 3.2 and Lotus Domino customers will be able to continue consolidating business critical applications onto even fewer System p 570 servers. Technological innovations such as hot-node add, multiple page sizes, enhanced simultaneous multithreading (SMT), dynamic load management and Live Partition Mobility features in the latest POWER6 processor-based server models serve as a foundation for future Lotus Domino releases to help provide better performance, increased system resource utilization and lower total cost of ownership to our customers."

Bill Hume, Director, Domino Development

"IBM System p servers offer highly robust virtualization capabilities to improve the availability of applications and provide a flexible foundation for establishing a service-oriented architecture (SOA). These virtualization features, such as PowerVM, Live Partition Mobility, WPAR and Live Application Mobility, are extremely beneficial as companies embrace a smart SOA strategy and achieve lower total cost of ownership through server consolidation."

Tom Rosamilia, General Manager,
Application and Integration Middleware

KANA Software, Inc.

"We are excited about IBM's new innovative POWER6™ processor-based system. In recent testing, we demonstrated how KANA IQ can take advantage of IBM's Advanced POWER™ Virtualization and micro-partitions to help reduce overall system resources for the same transaction throughput while maintaining good response time. KANA IQ is a comprehensive knowledge management solution used by some of the world's largest companies, who expect the highest levels of application performance. IBM's new POWER6 processor-based system will allow us to deliver even higher performance solutions and lower total cost of ownership to our clients."

Charlie Isaacs, CTO

Lakeview Technology Inc.

"Increasingly we are seeing small and mid-sized businesses endorsing IBM System p5 Express servers and deploying critical applications on them. As users implement critical applications on the new servers, either with AIX and Linux operating environments, the need to protect vital data increases proportionately. Lakeview Technology is pleased to offer information availability solutions that safeguard business continuity. "

Bill Hammond, Product Strategy Director

Lawson

"Lawson is excited to team with IBM to provide our clients reliable yet cost-effective solutions for the healthcare, government and education, retail, and financial services sectors. The IBM System p5 Express servers deliver the performance, flexibility, and reliability required by our clients."

Del Dehn, Product Manager, Server Technology

Mendocino Software

"Supporting the POWER5 architecture has opened many new opportunities for Message Partners and the MPP. It was simple to port and benchmark MPP with the help of IBM's solution enablement teams and testing facilities. The new IBM System p5 Express offerings provide a tremendous platforms for our small and medium sized business customers to secure and archive their email environments."

Eric Burgener, VP Marketing

Message Partners

"Supporting the POWER5 architecture has opened many new opportunities for Message Partners and the MPP. It was simple to port and benchmark MPP with the help of IBM's solution enablement teams and testing facilities. The new IBM System p5 Express offerings provide a tremendous platforms for our small and medium sized business customers to secure and archive their email environments."

Michael Katz, CEO

MRO

"We are pleased to be able to offer Maximo Enterprise Suite on the IBM System p5 Express platform. The latest server offerings from IBM are exactly what our customers look for—affordable yet powerful capabilities for delivering asset and service management solutions."

Richard Burns, Director,Quality Assurance, MRO Software

MSC Software

"MSC Software's Virtual Product Development solutions enable manufacturing companies to reduce costs and increase market share. To meet customer demands for faster, more robust solutions, we are committed to supporting open systems and high-performance computing. By taking advantage of the commanding 64-bit performance of the IBM® System p5™ 575, we are accelerating the performance of our enterprise VPD solutions, such as MSC Nastran, the world's leading structural analysis solution, so that our customers can accelerate innovative, high-performance products to market."

Andrew Meyer, Vice President Corporate Marketing

Novell

"Novell has long supported IBM's POWER platforms with SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, and IBM's System p5 Express servers, OpenPower Edition, running SUSE Linux provide a high-performance, low-cost platform for enterprises of all sizes. Novell will continue to join with IBM to provide customers the flexibility of Linux on POWER servers."

David Patrick, Novell vice president and general manager of Linux, Open Source Platforms and Services

Oracle Corporation

"IBM's POWER6 based System p 520 Express server offers unique value and capabilities to Oracle Retail and IBM mid-sized clients. Mid-sized customers in a variety of industries can now experience the performance and advanced availability features of IBM System p servers, PowerVM technology, and Oracle applications to enhance business value."

John Gray, Vice President
Software Development, Oracle Retail

"IBM's latest addition to the POWER6 processor based servers, System p 550 Express is ideally suited to run Oracle Database and Oracle Applications. Its innovative POWER6 processor-based technology can offer the value and performance our joint customers need to run their businesses. The combined strength and excellence of IBM System p servers and Oracle Applications provide customers across all industries the advanced features and mission critical capabilities they require."

Roger Feigelson
Senior Director, IBM Global Account Management Oracle

"The new IBM System p™ 570 server with its innovative POWER6™ processor-based technology offers unique versatility to the many Oracle and IBM clients running their businesses with Oracle Applications. IBM has tested the System p 570 server using the Oracle Application Standard Benchmark and the results demonstrate outstanding performance. The combined strength and excellence of IBM System p servers and Oracle Applications deliver the advanced features and mission critical capabilities our mutual clients require."

Carolyn Chambers, Group Vice President, Application Platforms, Quality and Release

Pegasystems Inc.

"We were pleased to be invited into the IBM early test program for the POWER6™ processor-based System p™ 570 server. Once again, Pegasystems has the opportunity to work with IBM to provide the most demanding financial services customers with our Build for Change™ solutions. The enhancements continue to demonstrate IBM's leadership in UNIX® servers, and in meeting the performance demands of our solutions. We are looking forward to supporting the first p570 customers."

Douglas Kim, Managing Director, Global Partners and Alliances

PeopleSoft

"We are pleased to see IBM driving industry leadership around the BladeCenter family with the introduction of the first POWER6 based Blade offering. The BladeCenter JS22 introduces a new and compelling platform for our mutual customers while providing the advantages of POWER6 based blades to the portfolio of IBM BladeCenter infrastructure solutions."

Mike Thompson, Vice President
Enterprise Application Architecture

PTC

"The IBM System p5 Express servers, with their innovative IBM POWER5+™ processors and Advanced POWER™ Virtualization technology, open new opportunities for our clients, "said John Stuart, senior vice president of global partners and education, PTC. "Small and medium-sized enterprises as well as large organizations with distributed PDM requirements can experience the benefits of Windchill 7.0 and 8.0 on one of the most advanced and affordable server families in the industry. PTC has been impressed with the IBM POWER server performance as demonstrated in the recently completed Windchill 7.0 and 8.0 sizing guides."

Anita Berryman, Manager Corporate Communications

Relavis Corporation

"Relavis provides a collaborative CRM solution built on the IBM® Lotus® Domino® server, IBM WebSphere® Portal, and IBM Workplace™ Collaboration Services platforms. Our customers and business partners depend upon us to provide them with a rich set of features and functionality to help them create high-performance sales, marketing, and service teams. We've come to rely on IBM eServer™ pSeries® and p5 platform for the past three years as our primary development–bed and are excited to support the new IBM System p5™ models for our clients — and ourselves. We need a reliable, dependable, and high-availability server to support our global development team that operates in both hemispheres. Our team literally develops around the clock and being off-line is not an option. Performance and scalability is key to a geographically distributed team, which varies in its needs and must make use of all of the system resources it needs on-demand. Virtualization on the IBM servers gives us this flexibility at a manageable price-performance ratio."

Robert DeMaio, President and CEO

SAP

"With introduction of the IBM POWER6™ processor-based System p™ 570 server, IBM continues their commitment to provide powerful IT platforms to SAP customers who are looking to dynamically adapt their infrastructure requirements. SAP NetWeaver 7.1 implements industry standard support for hardware decimal floating-point (DFP). The new POWER6 hardware DFP acceleration feature provides an ideal hardware environment for the execution of SAP-related DFP operations."

Stephan Rossius, Senior Vice President, Global Partner Management

"With the launch of the POWER6 processor-based servers, IBM continues their committment to provide powerful IT platforms to SAP customers. The new Live Partition Mobility supports our mutual clients sustain business critical operations and meet service level agreements."

Rainer Hofmann, Vice President
Global Partner Management IBM SAP AG

SAS

"SAS is pleased to team with IBM to offer SAS BI solutions that run on IBM's next generation of System p™ server. This innovative IBM POWER6™ processor-based system allows us to provide our clients with highly available, scalable, and flexible solutions at an outstanding value. These features are important for mission-critical business intelligence solutions such as analytical customer relationship management, data mining, data warehousing, and other core business functions."

Scott Van Valkenburgh, Director of Global Platform and ISV Partners

SER Storage Technology

"The IBM System p5 servers, with their innovative IBM POWER5+™ processors and Advanced POWER™ Virtualization technology, open new opportunities for our clients. Small and medium-sized enterprises as well as large organizations with distributed application requirements can experience the benefits of SER DOXiS iECM Suite on one of the most advanced and affordable server families in the industry.

The POWER5™ virtualization features offer our clients the flexibility to share physical resources and communications including processors, disk drives and network adapter resources to achieve greater system utilization and lower costs. This technology allows our clients to consolidate multiple AIX 5L and Linux workloads onto a single server, and thereby simplify their IT infrastructure and costs. Their IT staff can then concentrate on revenue-generating projects that provide additional business value, rather than being dedicated to maintaining multiple and unwieldy systems."

Klaus Eulenbach, CTO

SIMULIA

"At SIMULIA, we have been supporting IBM AIX and Power Systems for many years and have been very satisfied with the excellent performance in these systems. We anticipate that our customers will receive significant performance value from the new IBM System p 550 Express based on POWER6 processor technology, which will be ideally suited to run Abaqus FEA applications for small to mid-size manufacturers."

Ken Short, Vice President, Strategy and Marketing

SSA Global

"The IBM® System p5™ server running AIX 5L™ allows SSA Global customers superior performance and great flexibility while reducing cost through potential consolidation of multiple workloads on a single server. Leveraging IBM System p5 servers' world-class capabilities and SSA Global solutions, we provide a total enterprise solution for our customers."

Cory Eaves, Chief Technology Officer

SteelEye Technology

"SteelEye supports the IBM System p5 running Red Hat Enterprise Linux and SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server with our LifeKeeper High Availability solution. The IBM POWER5™ architecture is tuned for the Linux OS and delivers the performance, flexibility, and reliability features our clients expect."

Bob Williamson, VP of Products

Sterling Commerce

“Sterling Commerce is a leader in retail, providing business process applications and integration solutions that enable retailers to conduct business with their customers and business partners – an environment that demands the highest levels of reliability. We look forward to working with IBM to offer the latest POWER6™ processor-based server as an affordable, highly available, high-performance foundation for our applications.”

Steven Aulds, Senior Vice President of Engineering

Sybase, Inc.

"IBM's POWER6 based System p 550 Express server offers unique value and capabilities to Sybase customers, helping Sybase extend its Unwired Enterprise vision," said David Jacobson, Senior Director of Marketing, Sybase, Inc. "Organizations of all sizes can now experience the performance and efficiency of IBM System p servers and Sybase applications to deliver business advantages."

David Jacobson, Senior Director of Marketing.

TeamQuest Corporation

"We are pleased to offer the TeamQuest Performance Software solution for the IBM eServer OpenPower platform. Our powerful performance analysis and capacity planning tools, combined with the capability of IBM POWER5 servers allow customers and ISVs the ability to manage their existing resources as well as to "right size" their applications and solutions for future growth. Together, TeamQuest, IBM, and its Business Partners offer a WIN/WIN/WIN for customers. The new IBM POWER5 systems with their virtualization ability, coupled with TeamQuests' unique ability to measure and model server consolidation activities create a best-of-breed solution for our mutual customers."

Joseph A. Rich, Director of Strategic Alliances

Waters Corporation

"Our decision to build on the POWER5 and POWER5+ processor-based systems, such as the IBM System p5 550 Express offering, was based on the increased speed, efficiency and productivity they bring to our key proteomics technologies."

Tim Riley Ph. D., Vice President of Proteomics Business Development

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