“TurboLinux, one of the leaders in Linux clustering, and Red
Hat, one of the most widely ported Linux distributions, each made
announcements recently that would seem more likely to have come
from the other vendor: TurboLinux ported to the 64-bit Alpha
processor, and Red Hat announced its first clustering
product.”
“TurboLinux last week announced its TurboLinux distribution for
the Alpha, bringing the total Linux ports for the high-performance
Alpha server/workstation platform to six (previous ports include
Red Hat, Mandrake, Debian, SuSE and RockLinux). By porting to the
Alpha, TurboLinux hopes to market its new Linux distribution
towards ISPs, financial-related businesses and movie studios. These
three markets are being targeted, the company says, because the
combination of the Linux and Alpha platforms can address ISPs’
needs for high reliability, financial institutions’ needs for
intense computational applications, and the movie industry’s need
for extremely high-resolution graphics rendering.
“Red Hat recently jumped into a new game as well, with the
release of Red Hat High Availability Server 1.0. The new server
software is a variation on the Red Hat distribution that allows an
unlimited number of nodes to be clustered together, using standard,
off-the-shelf PC server and networking hardware. The software is
intended for high-availability systems, such as Web servers, VPN
gateways, ftp servers, or as an application or database server for
mission-critical e-commerce or enterprise applications.”