According to LinMin's announcement Thursday, LinMin Bare Metal Provisioning, which began shipping last week, is being tested for to instill consumer confidence in this product used to remotely deploy operating systems.

"Being awarded the ?Intel Certified Powered by SpikeSource' logo will mean a major achievement for LinMin, as it provides increased confidence and trust for our end users and channel partners that LinMin Bare Metal Provisioning is secure, interoperable and enabled on Intel platforms," LinMin founder and chief executive officer Laurent Gharda said in a statement. "We also look forward to increased product demand now that we are part of the Intel Business Exchange, the online technology marketplace with global reach."

Intel Partner Programs Organization director J. Scott Harrison said Intel Certification immediately delivers business value. "Program members can quickly take advantage of advanced Intel technologies and create more secure solutions without committing additional development resources, helping them to improve competitive advantage in the marketplace," Harrison said in a statement.

LinMin Bare Metal Provisioning features a new application programming interface that enables any open source or proprietary application to trigger bare metal provisioning events. It also supports more than 50 different versions and architectures of Linux, Windows and additional platforms, including 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.2, Novell SLES10 SP2, CentOS 5.2, Fedora 9 and Ubuntu 8.04.1.

LinMin Bare Metal Provisioning ranges in price from $250 for up to 10 client systems, to $1,000 for 100, to $1,875 for 250, and is also available for annual subscription at $100, $400 and $750 respectively.