Integration provides IGEL Linux customers access to the full range of functions on IBM’s mainframe systems

Reading, UK. August 23rd, 2010: IGEL Technology today announced that it has integrated the IBM 5250 client into its Linux thin client firmware to provide IBM users direct access to IBM Power Systems™ such as the AS/400, iSeries and System i™. Using the new integrated client, customers of both IBM and IGEL will now have access to the full range of functions in their mainframe systems. Available immediately, the IBM 5250 client is part of IGEL’s market-leading, Linux-based thin client software.

“This integration provides our IBM users with a seamless solution to use IGEL thin clients to access their mainframes,” said Simon Richards, UK General Manager at IGEL. In addition, customers can consolidate IBM terminals with Windows®-based and Linux-based PCs. IGEL thin clients can also be seamlessly integrated into virtual desktop infrastructures (VDI) and with their integrated browser, provide an economical and energy-efficient solution for directly accessing cloud-computing services,” said Simon Richards, UK General Manager at IGEL.

Pricing and Availability
The new IBM client software is included in the Standard and Advanced firmware packages for IGEL Universal Desktop thin clients running the Linux operating system (LX). These latest firmware versions are now available for download at www.MyIGEL.com.

About IGEL Technology
IGEL Technology is the world’s third largest client vendor by revenue and is market leader in its home country of Germany (2009 IDC). The company produces one of the industry’s widest range of thin clients, based on Linux and Microsoft Windows, giving customers access to almost any form of server-based infrastructure and application including virtual desktops from VMware®, Citrix® Xen or Microsoft®, terminal services, legacy applications via Ericom® PowerTerm® terminal emulation, web, Java, SAP and VoIP. Form factors include traditional desktops, integrated LCD units and quad screens as well as the world’s leading software for PC to TC conversion. IGEL Thin Clients come bundled at no extra cost with a remote management suite called UMS that guarantees hassle free and secure remote configuration and administration of thin clients as well as migrated PCs.