"Stratus Technologies Inc. is expanding its line of fault-tolerant servers running standard Linux with the unveiling today of the ftServer T60.
"The server, which will be powered by up to four single-core Intel Corp. Xeon chips, will run Red Hat Inc.'s Enterprise Linux AS operating system. Stratus three years ago first put its own variant of Linux on its fault-tolerant systems, which offer replicated components working in lockstep to avoid single points of failure. The company has since released two dual-processor systems—one for the telecommunications industry—running Red Hat Linux hardened for its systems..."