Xandros Announces xDMS: First Enterprise Desktop Management Server

New Enterprise Server Simplifies Deployment and Management of Thousands of Desktops, Including Competing Distributions

NEW YORK (LinuxWorld Expo), January 22, 2004 – Xandros, the leading developer of easy-to-use Linux solutions for the desktop market, today announced the Xandros Desktop Management Server (xDMS). This server-based suite is the first total deployment and management solution for Linux desktops in a secure enterprise environment.

With xDMS, software administrators can easily set up their software repositories and deploy customized desktop configurations to thousands of networked desktops. The thoroughly integrated graphical application can be used to manage the deployment of Xandros Desktop OS 2.0, as well as to manage the configurations and deploy updates for other competing Linux installations.

"The same pioneering ease of use that Xandros brought to the Linux desktop has now been applied to the deployment and management of desktops themselves," said Dr. Frederick H. Berenstein, Xandros Chairman and CTO. "While we believe that Xandros is the distribution of choice, we are providing our enterprise clients with complete freedom to deploy any distributions and packages they choose."

Easy to Use, Yet Powerful
The Desktop Management Server provides an easy-to-use set of graphical tools, which allows departmental desktop administrators to perform sophisticated tasks that formerly required retention of expensive Linux networking experts. They can easily set up custom software repositories from multiple sources and quickly deploy and manage groups of networked PCs. All of this is done in a secure environment with all information kept behind a corporate firewall, not on a remote Internet server.

xDMS also lets administrators set up a single PC with the software and settings they need (including custom user profiles, desktop icons, screen resolution, network and printer shares), then take a snapshot of that "golden PC" to remotely deploy the configuration onto systems across the network.

Other features include: SSL encryption for all transmissions within the LAN, one click updates of software repositories, and remote scheduled deployment of automatic software updates and security patches

About Xandros
Founded in 2001 with headquarters in New York and research and development facilities in Ottawa, Xandros, Inc. is the leading developer of easy-to-use desktop Linux solutions targeting home and enterprise markets. Xandros pioneered a low-cost alternative operating system that provides seamless compatibility with Microsoft Windows programs and networks. For more information, please visit www.xandros.com.