Centeris eyes Windows/Linux simplicity

摘要

Centeris CEO Barry Crist can rattle off a litany of reasons for why you should give his company's management software a whirl. But perhaps his most illustrative selling point is this: "What if your Linux administrator goes on vacation?" The 2-year-old company which is set to release the second version of its Likewise product this week, specializes in helping small and midsize businesses (SMB) manage Windows and Linux servers from a common Windows console, including the Microsoft Management Console (see graphic). More specifically the server and agent software enables Windows administrators to manage Linux systems and hook them into Active Directory while shielding them from the command-line interfaces and other intricacies of the open source operating system.