My company already uses a commercial systems management solution (IBM Tivoli, Computer Associates, HP OpenView, HP Opsware, etc.), so why shouldn I just purchase their provisioning modules?
• Maybe you should. If you have a highly complex IT environment, and you want to have on-demand “utility computing” where systems get repurposed automatically based on dynamic load, and if you have the funds to justify this purchase, then this may be the way to go for you. However, with LinMin’s Application Programming Interface (API) in release 5.2 your existing systems management tools can trigger provisioning events trough LinMin. • If you don’t want to have to go up 4 levels of company management to justify the purchase of tens of thousands of dollars (and instead pay only a few hundred), and you’re satisfied with an easy to use solution that gives you the flexibility and control over how your systems get provisioned (and that didn’t take you months to write yourself), then LinMin is the better choice. • And you can still automatically install your Tivoli or BMC or other management Agent so the system will “fit right in” (be ready to be managed by your systems management software)
