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February 2008 |
Happy New Year!
February 1st is the first day of our fiscal year and this is already shaping up to be another incredible year for Likewise. The last six months have been wild ones for the Likewise team, our customers, and partners.
Likewise Open has been enthusiastically received by organizations that want a great way to authenticate Linux, UNIX, and Mac computers into directories such as AD. Red Hat and Ubuntu have announced and will soon be shipping and supporting Likewise Open as part of their Linux distributions.
Likewise Enterprise 4.0 is taking the market by storm and let's simply say winning well more than its fair share of competitive battles in large enterprise organizations. Our new name fits the company perfectly and we're executing well across all areas of the business and continuing to bring top industry talent to our team.
The CIO conversation is increasingly about "effectively managing a mixed but well integrated environment" as well as "leveraging and extending our existing infrastructure." We continue to see focus on securing access to both server and desktop environments in a secure and efficient manner. And the pressure from the audit and compliance teams is going to increase this year.
We have big plans in the works and you will see significant announcements from us throughout the year. Until then, thank you all for your help making Linux, UNIX and Mac systems first-class citizens in a Windows environment.
Warm regards,
Barry Crist
CEO
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Webinar Reminder: Introducing Likewise Open - Open Source Project |
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- Date: February 13, 2008
- Time: 10:00 am (PDT)
- Duration: 60 minutes
Likewise Software invites
you to join our Open Source Series Webinar featuring Gerald Carter, Likewise software engineer and Likewise Open project lead. Gerald will introduce Likewise Open, a new open source community
project sponsored by Likewise Software. Find out how Likewise Open enables core Active Directory authentication for Linux systems - by joining these non-Windows systems to Active Directory domains. Register Now!
In this webinar you will:
- See a demo of how a Linux system is joined to an Active
Directory domain
- See how Likewise Open let's you authenticate users with a single user name and password
on both Windows and Linux systems
- Learn how Likewise Open allows single sign-on for SSH and Putty
- Discover how to participate in the Likewise Open project
Attendees Will Be Entered To Win a $50 Visa Gift Card
All webinar attendees will be entered into a drawing for a $50 Visa Gift Card. The drawing will take place at the end of the webinar. You must be
present on the call to win.
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Likewise Software in the News |
| January 15, 2008 |
Who says you can't use Active Directory with Linux?
Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols, of eWEEK.com
Like it or lump it, Microsoft's Active Directory is the heart of many corporate networks. That, however, doesn't mean that Linux and Mac systems can't work and play with Active Directory. With Samba, they can. And, with Likewise, Linux and Mac can work and play well with Active Directory.
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| December 18, 2008 |
Likewise opens up on its new strategy
Matthew Aslett, of The 451 Group
I recently noted that Centeris, which enables the integration of Linux into Microsoft environments, had changed its name to
Likewise and launched a new open source authentication project called Likewise Open. This week I was able to catch up with Likewise CEO, Barry Crist, who shared some more details about the
company's products and strategy going forward.
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| December 11, 2008 |
Linux, Unix, Mac, Windows PCs get authentication integration
John Fontana, of networkworld.com
"For me, the big story of open source in the enterprise is that it's becoming a non-story," says
Barry Crist, the CEO of Centeris, which makes software to integrate user authentication services between Windows, Linux, Unix and Mac. "There was so much hand wringing, but what I am seeing at the
corporate level is this has become uninteresting to them. They are comfortable with the mix between commercial and open source. Organizations are working to figure out how to best leverage and
integrate these platforms with their Windows environments."
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| December 4, 2008 |
Centeris opens Active Directory to open
source, Likewise
Dana Blankenhorn and Paula Rooney, of
zdnet.com
CEO Barry Crist told ZDNet
that Likewise Open will integrate users with Ubuntu Linux, Red Hat Linux and Novell's SUSE Linux into Microsoft Active Directory systems, something enterprise system managers have long sought.
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Join Us For Upcoming Events |
Directory Experts Conference
- Date: March 2-5, 2008
- Location: Chicago Hilton, Chicago, Illinois
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Brainshare
- Date: March 16-21, 2008
- Location: Salt Palace Convention Center, Salt Lake City, Utah
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