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CA, Red Hat in majot pact

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Computer Associates and Linux market leader Red Hat announced a major pact

under which the latter will combine its Linux OS with CA’s business system

management software. CA's sales force, meanwhile will sell Red Hat's business

support contracts to its Unicenter TNG clients.

Currently CA’s products are distributed on the Unix and Microsoft NT

platforms. The Red Hat deal opens a potentially lucrative market for Red Hat as

its virtually cost-free OS structure offers customers a low-cost way to adopt

the CA management system. Also important for the Linux community in general is

that the CA deal shows Linux is capable of moving into the area of

mid-to-large-size corporate networks to perform mission-critical tasks.

CA president Sanjay Kumar said four or five new Linux-based products would be

available in the current fiscal fourth quarter and by next year, 15 per cent of

CA's revenue from operating systems could come from the Linux products.

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