“Big announcements and large attendance signaled to the
world that Linux may have come of age at the fourth LinuxWorld
Conference & Expo last week. … Dell pledged to throw the
weight of his $25 billion company behind the operating system and
force hardware vendors to develop more Linux device drivers for
internal and peripheral PC and server components.”
“IBM announced a Linux cluster hardware/software package for
high-availability Linux systems. IBM’s Solution Series for Linux
Clusters includes Netfinity servers running IBM’s Linux Utility for
Clusters, software that controls multiple servers as one logical
node. The cluster package includes high-speed server interfaces
from Myricom and Ethernet switches from Extreme Networks for
connecting the cluster to a LAN. The package scales up to 64 nodes
and supports Caldera, Red Hat, SuSE and TurboLinux
distributions.”
“Also making Linux clustering announcements were Silicon
Graphics, which announced its Iris FailSave failover clustering
software for Linux; Mission Critical Linux, which debuted its
Convolo Cluster, a two-node failover product for Linux on the IA64;
and SuSE, which introduced SuSE Linux Professional Edition
7.0.”