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ITWorld Canada: Penguin Fever Hits UWO

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Mar 31, 2004

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Ho
for this link. ]

“Four University of Western Ontario (UWO) students in London,
Ont., have come down with Penguin fever, starting up their own
Linux company dubbed Ignalum Linux.

“Ignalum integrates with a Microsoft Corp. Windows network on
the desktop out-of-the-box, said Michael Pietrantonio, CEO of
Ignalum and a fourth-year computer engineering student.

“‘It can also act as a domain controller, meaning Windows
machines can authenticate themselves on the network with [Ignalum]
running as the server,’ he added…”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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