Posted by : bpburnwal on Sep 25, 2003 - 05:10 PM General

Chip maker Intel and mainframe software company BMC Software have joined others in making a $14m in Aduva, a company that seeks to simplify installation and managemt of Linux systems.
Returning investers in the third round funding include Cap Ventures, Evergreen Management and the Capital Group, the company said. The Intel investment came from its Intel 64 Fund, which seeks to boust the prospects of its newly realeased 64 bit Itanium family of high-end processors. And through its investment, BMC now has right to packlage and resale Aduva's products, including jointly developed software for IBM's zSeries mainframes, which now can run the linux operating system.