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Likewise announced today availability of both Likewise Open 5.3 and Likewise Enterprise 5.3 software that supports Apple's new Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, enabling those systems to be integrated with Microsoft Active Directory.
Likewise Open allows computers running Mac OS X Snow Leopard to authenticate with an organization's existing Active Directory. Likewise Enterprise builds on the authentication engine of Likewise Open, making it easy for IT managers to authenticate users, control access to applications and data, centrally manage settings with group policies and create reports for regulatory audits. In addition, Likewise Enterprise is the only solution to provide 100 percent native support for Apple's Workgroup Manager application.
"Likewise provides the best integration for Macs into Active Directory and helps make Macs first-class citizens in a Windows environment," said Manny Vellon, chief technology officer and co-founder of Likewise. "As networks become more mixed and diverse, Likewise allows organizations to leverage their investment in Active Directory to provide a single system to manage networks and improve security. We're adding Snow Leopard to our long and continuously growing list of supported platforms."
About Glenn Rossman Glenn Rossman has more than 25 years communications experience working at IBM and Hewlett-Packard, along with startup StorageApps, plus agencies Hill & Knowlton and G&A Communications. His experience includes media relations, industry and financial analyst relations, executive communications, intranet and employee communications, as well as producing sales collateral. In technology, his career includes work in channel partner communications, data storage technologies, server computers, software, PC and UNIX computers, along with specific industry initiatives such as manufacturing, medical, and finance.
Before his latest stint in technology, Glenn did business-to-business public relations on behalf of the DuPont Company for its specialty polymers products and with the largest steel companies in North America in an initiative focused on automakers.
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