Unix systems in the past have been managed on a one-off basis. Each system had an administrator and the administrator was responsible to manage the accounts, passwords and identities of the users on each system.

They'll be competing with companies like Computer Associates. This is the opening move in a larger chess game.

HP is adding simplicity for HP-UX customers that also buy their management software. They can overlay this ID management tool for the operating system and reduce wasted resources on server management.