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Partners
"Likewise has become a recognized solution provider for authentication of non-Windows systems into Active Directory for the enterprise. The combination of Oracle Enterprise Linux and Likewise is a strong option for Microsoft Windows customers that are adopting Linux.”
Monica Kumar | Senior Director of Linux and Open Source Product Marketing | Oracle
"Customers with a blend of Windows®, UNIX®, Linux® and Mac® systems are looking for ways to leverage their current investments, including Windows administrator skill sets. Likewise Enterprise provides a way to easily join non-Windows systems to Microsoft Active Directory and manage all platforms from a unified directory they're already using. We refined a shortlist of providers and Likewise emerged as the best solution to address authentication in mixed networks.”
Satoshi Agatsuma | Senior Sales Engineer | TOYO Corporation
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"I welcome this opportunity to endorse Likewise Software for supporting Asianux. With ‘Likewise Enterprise' and its integrated secure authentication, our customers can fully leverage the power of Asianux in a heterogeneous OS environment. Miracle Linux will actively collaborate with TOYO Corporation to promote Likewise Enterprise in the Japan Market.”
Takeshi Sato | Vice Chairman | Asianux Corporation Ltd.
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"The non-Windows desktop group policy advancements in Likewise Enterprise 4.0 are a significant advancement. With thousands of group policies to offer, Novell and Likewise Software are working with some of our largest SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop customers to lock down their desktops with Likewise Enterprise, for increased security and control. The ability to manage SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop machines using existing Active Directory group policies makes it even easier for customers to deploy Linux desktops alongside their existing Windows machines.”
Guy Lunardi | Senior Product Manager | Novell for SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop
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"We are excited about the Likewise Open project and the solutions that it will provide Canonical's enterprise customers and other major deployments of Ubuntu. Likewise Open allows us to provide end users of the Ubuntu operating system the ability to join their systems to Microsoft Active Directory for user authentication. We look forward to the debut of Likewise Open in the April release of Ubuntu 8.04 LTS (Long Term Support).”
Mark Shuttleworth | Founder | Ubuntu project
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"Likewise Open is an important development for our enterprise customers who wish to use open source software to enable users of Red Hat Enterprise Linux to authenticate against Active Directory.”
Karl Wirth | Director - Security Business | Red Hat
"Likewise has launched a partner program at the right time, as the demand for interoperability products and services is on the rise. Our customers are using both Linux and Windows servers, and need solutions that will make it easier for them to manage these mixed environments. Likewise understands the market and has developed a proven technology and innovative partner program that will solve our customers' challenges and provide us with an additional revenue-generating opportunity."
Bob Kusche | President | VM Assist
"As an Alliance partner, Likewise will have a unique opportunity to showcase its products and services to a community of companies that are interested in pushing forward interoperability issues and technologies. Likewise will also have the opportunity to work with other companies in testing multi-vendor interop scenarios. We look forward to engaging Likewise in future interoperability discussions with Microsoft and our Alliance community."
Sam Rosenbalm | Business Development Manager | Microsoft
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Analyst
"Managing access control in a network of Linux, UNIX, Macs and Windows is critical for the enterprise. Likewise software understands mixed environments and helps organizations improve security and demonstrate regulatory compliance. Likewise products truly support the theme of Software 2008.”
MR Rangaswami | Founder | Sand Hill Group
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"What they've done is to produce Likewise Open, the first open source enterprise-class solution to address the authentication needs of organizations with mixed networks. For companies looking to move beyond the open source solution, there's also Likewise Enterprise, which adds the ability to use group policies to manage their mixed environment, as well as use the built-in audit and reporting features to gain visibility and pass audits. It is worth a look."
Dave Kearns | Consultant | Journal of Identity Management.
"Organizations today are faced with the complexity of managing mixed networks and multiple identity management systems as well as the additional pressures of meeting regulatory compliance demands. Customers are looking for ways to leverage their existing Active Directory infrastructure to lower costs and better meet security and regulatory requirements."
John Enck | Research Vice President and Research Director | Gartner Inc.
Pundits
"Very few organizations are running one operating system exclusively across their network. Likewise makes authentication of non-Windows systems to AD easily installable and freely Available. With all of the major Linux providers including Likewise Open in their upcoming distributions, Open is fast becoming the defacto solution for secure authentication of UNIX, Linux and Mac systems with AD.”
Richard Seibt | Former CEO | SuSE Linux AG
Customers
"RealNetwork's continued organic growth along with our numerous acquisitions over the past few years have given us a very mixed computing environment and all the associated challenges of managing them as one environment. Likewise Enterprise 4.0, will allow us to smoothly integrate our Linux and Unix servers and desktops into our Active Directory infrastructure, assisting us with our compliance efforts, and should significantly reduce our cost associated with user authentication and authorization."
Edmond Mesrobian | Chief Technology Officer | RealNetworks, Inc.
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"Likewise Open will allow NIH [the National Institutes of Health] to reduce costs by joining our Linux systems to Active Directory. By working with the open source community, Likewise Software has made it easy for Linux distributors to include Active Directory authentication as part of the operating system and easy for centers like ours to deploy the solution."
Jeff Plum | Senior Engineer | National Institute of Health
"At Experian, we were adding and removing user accounts locally, which is a potential security risk. Likewise Identity allows us to adhere to our strategy of centralizing user account management in Active Directory for all systems, strengthen the security of our network, and lower operational overhead."
Ferris Rezvani | IT Infrastructure Manager | Experian
"At the end of the day, we have to report this stuff. The question was whether or not we could better our reporting. Now we get more data in a faster time and a better return-people-to-work time.”
Jeff Arcuri | Senior Manager of IT | Gap Inc. Direct
"Everyone at Likewise who has assisted Tecplot, has shown the diligence, expertise, and the patience to get Likewise Enterprise to work as claimed in our environment. This effort has been coupled with an excellent version of your product.”
Pete Koehler | MCSE Network Administrator | Tecplot Inc.
