Aduva CEO Zev Laderman, in announcing that the company reached sales of $1 million in its most recent quarter, says that global corporations across a diverse range of industries including energy, banking, government, retail as well as one of the world’s largest package-delivery companies, adopted Aduva OnStage. In the first quarter of 2005 alone, Aduva closed contracts with three additional Fortune 200 companies and additional Global 2000 companies In Europe and the US.

Laderman observes, “Our firm has been experiencing strong, steady growth with each successive quarter. Linux is making significant strides within large enterprises and we’re pleased that Aduva is one of the major players powering this expansion. As Linux continues to proliferate and ultimately becomes the platform of choice for mission critical applications, enterprises will require the level of security, availability, and standards compliance made possible by Aduva OnStage."

He says that the bottom line is, "Companies deploying Linux projects, from ‘proof of concept’ all the way through production, have come to rely on Aduva OnStage as the catalyst for quick, cost effective and virtually risk free roll-outs.”

A recent survey of 140 IT decision makers yielded some very dramatic results, Laderman adds: 52% of the respondents indicated that they chose Linux as the hosting platform for new applications and 53% responded that they are running a mission-critical application on Linux. Survey results also indicate that more internal company resources are being allocated toward architecture teams and policy/standards groups tasked with analyzing Linux and open source software and its potential enterprise benefits.

Customers struggling to achieve the promised cost savings and leveraged computing power associated with Linux face a cost, risk and capability gap in switching to Linux. Aduva OnStage eliminates these Linux adoption impediments thus enabling customers to capture the Linux promise with confidence. Commenting on Aduva’s recent success with Fortune 200 companies, CEO Zev Laderman concludes, “By helping our customers accelerate Linux project implementations and reduce associated risk, we witnessed a rapid expansion of our customer base in 2004.  Reflecting on our first-quarter results, I am pleased to report that this trend continues in 2005.”

To ensure Aduva continues to provide customers with world-class value, Laderman says the company is aggressively pursuing "go-to-market" partnerships with key software/service providers, with the intention to enable Aduva’s customers to easily extend their current Linux systems management capabilities and further capture the Linux promise with confidence.

For example, Aduva’s long-standing partnership with IBM was recently expanded to include support for IBM eServer Application Advantage for Linux (Chiphopper), which enables customers to easily port and rehost x86-based Linux applications onto POWER or zSeries platforms running Linux and IBM middleware such as WebSphere and DB2.  To support this capability, the IBM/Aduva alliance team ported OnStage to the eServer OpenPower platform in record time. Moving forward, Aduva plans to expand its partner role to include support for IBM’s Autonomic Computing and Grid Ecosystem offerings.