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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.


Power Systems AIX
Chordiant Corporation
IBM Corporation
Micro Focus
 
Oracle Corporation
Symantec
Vision Solutions
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 Chordiant Corporation

"Chordiant is enthusiastic to announce, that by partnering with IBM and certifying our Chordiant Foundation Server v6.2.1 on WebSphere Application Server V6.1, we will support the general availability of AIX V6.1 on day one due to the fact that WAS V6.1 supports AIX V6.1. We anticipate rapid adoption to this latest version of AIX based on the customer requirements for stronger security and more advanced workload management."

Peter Hammack
Director of Alliances
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 IBM Corporation

"The combination of AIX 6.1, DB2 9 and Live Partition Mobility on System p demonstrates the deep integration of DB2, AIX and System p technologies to offer unsurpassed Availability, including the minimization of planned outages", said Arvind Krishna, Vice President for Data Servers, IBM Information Management Software, " Availability is extremely important to our customers and is a core component of the Information Management strategy. This new support will provide our customers with enhanced availability for mission critical applications on DB2 data servers."

Arvind Krishna
Vice President, Database Servers & IM Development
"AIX6.1 introduces dramatic new capabilities to improve the availability of applications with exciting new features-such as WPAR for virtualization and application mobility, providing a flexible foundation for establishing a service-oriented architecture (SOA). WebSphere Application Server is pleased to announce support for AIX 6.1 and commitment for tighter integration between WebSphere Application Server and AIX6.1. Customers will find the tighter integration between WebSphere Application Server and AIX6.1 extremely beneficial as they embrace an SOA strategy and achieve lower total cost of ownership through server consolidation."
Tom Rosamilia,
GM, Application & Integration Middleware
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 Micro Focus

"The combination of Micro Focus and AIX 6.1 will provide our joint customers with a cost-effective, flexible, high-performance platform," said Mike Shinya, chief operating officer. "Customers can deploy IBM's newest and most powerful System p hardware for enhanced enterprise COBOL applications that perform to the highest scale possible and return tangible benefits to IT organizations."

Michael Waters
Director of Strategic Alliances
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 Oracle Corporation

"We are pleased to see IBM's continued commitment to AIX with the release of Version 6.1. IBM continues to push the UNIX envelope with AIX Version 6 and the new virtualization, security, and availability features provide a robust and flexible platform for Oracle Database and Oracle Applications."

Stephen Boyle, Oracle
Vice President, Global Platform Alliances
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 Symantec

"Version 6.1 demonstrates IBM's commitment to AIX. The rich set of new features provides a robust and flexible platform for Symantec products," said Kent McMullen, Senior Director, Strategic Alliances, Symantec."

Kent McMullen, Symantec
Senior Director, Strategic Alliances
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 Vision Solutions

"Vision Solutions is pleased to announce that our EchoStream and HA Cluster products will support AIX, Version 6.1 at initial release," says Executive Vice President and CTO Alan Arnold. "We anticipate customers will quickly adopt this latest version AIX for running their business-critical applications."

Alan Arnold, Executive VP and CTO
Vision Solutions
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