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CA Releases UniCenter for Linux
Computer Associates looks like it has finally released it's UniCenter Managment Framework for Red Hat Linux. Other distros to follow soon, and you can order a free CD from CA.
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I used to work @ CA. Please let me just get a few things off my back:
1. CA=Computer Associates=Constant Acquisition.
This company has never produced anything intelligent or even remotely good. They just buy smaller companies, fire everyone and milk their reputations and installed base for all they are worth.
2. Bill Gates is *not* the All-Powerful Evil Overlord of Darkness(tm). Charles Wang is the All-Powerful Evil Overlord of Darkness(tm). After buying a company, Mr Wang gather everyone around him, smiles and announces to the poor jerks: "I don't need you. CA does not need you. You are worthless little pieces of dirt and I am going to make you pay for it".
3. Boycott CA. I am serious: this company, even more than MS, represents everything that is wrong, corrupt, greedy and disgusting in the big soul-less corporations of closed-source software.
Their software sucks anyway.
I worked for CA for 1 and a helf year -- the day I quit that company was the day I started breathing again.
Enough said -- sorry for the ranting.
The right to offend is far more important than the right not to be offended. (Rowan Atkinson)
speaking as someone with a lot of UNICENTER experience, STAY AWAY, UNICENTER is the largest comglomeration of USELESS CRAP. 2/3's of it does not work as advertised, the support center is populated by slow rheesus monkies, and the documentation is just plain wrong in MANY places.
We've spent nearly 2 years fighting UNICENTER and the IDIOTS at CA before trashing the project and destroying the software. TIVOLI is the way to go...expect to see LINUX support there VERY SOON, and TIVOLI support seems to actually know the product the support, what a concept.
I went to the UT-210 Unicenter Basics course and was VERY unimpressed with the product. The developers couldn't see the forest for the trees. I think they tried to make it too complex a system while they disregarded basic reliability, the cornerstone of any good network management/monitoring suite.
After 15 minutes of poking around, Unicenter crashed. I had to switch machines because the instructor said a total reinstall of NT and Unicenter was needed. I'm good but not that good, I mean 15 minutes and I didn't change a single setting!!!
The software constantly showed incorrect network settings. Machines were up/down when they weren't. I had my dead machine off for 3 hours before Unicenter noticed.
My company is a CA VAR, and even with our great pricing I can't recommend Unicenter.