“Dell, a world leader in Internet commerce and
infrastructure computing, today announced that it is the first
server vendor to showcase 64-bit enterprise applications running in
a real world environment on the Linux operating system.“
“The Preussag Systemhaus GmbH, part of the Preussag Group, a
German industrial, logistics and tourism conglomerate — best known
for such brands as Thomas Cook Travel, TUI, HAPAG LLOYD, Minimax
and the Wolf Group, is running mySAP.com and IBM DB2 Universal
Database on the Linux operating system. The company is testing the
capabilities of the Itanium processors and validating the
performance, scalability, reliability and security features of this
new alternative to expensive RISC-based architectures. The Preussag
Group is one of many Dell customers around the world that are
currently running Itanium-based PowerEdge(tm) pilot servers in real
world environments.”
“Dell is working with a wide-range of partners to ensure that a
rich set of 64-bit applications are ready when it launches
Itanium-based servers early next year,” said Michael Lambert,
senior vice president, Dell Enterprise Systems Group. “This
prototype implementation is a great example of Dell, IBM, SAP’s and
Intel’s ability to collaborate on complex solution
development.”