“About a dozen projects are now underway to produce
high-availability versions of Linux, from classic open-source
community efforts to proprietary ports of existing applications on
other operating systems. For now the best advice is to carefully
separate what actually exists from what is promised and to examine
the details of each offering carefully in light of your specific
needs.”
“High availability is one of the biggest of the big-league
features a system can have. One of the first companies off the mark
with a high-availability Linux is Mission Critical Linux, a startup
built around a core of former DEC engineers experienced in building
high-availability systems such as VMS and Tru64 Unix.”
“The company has developed a ‘productized’ version of the
Kimberlite system it developed and released as open source. Other
projects, such as Lifekeeper from Steeleye Technology Inc.,
Mountain View, Calif., and FailSafe from Silicon Graphics Inc.,
Mountain View, and SuSE GmbH in Nuremberg, Germany, are ports from
other operating systems.”
Complete Story [ Story dated 31 October, but info. is still
timely – LT ed. ]