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SearchOpenSource: Niche Linux Servers Break Out of HPC Into Enterprise

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Mar 15, 2006

“Leveraging Linux and niche customization, a group of
independent server vendors are going head to head with
market-dominating server vendors, such as IBM, HP and Dell. Small
server vendors like Penguin Computing, Linux Networx, Pogo Linux
and Fabric7 Systems have gained headway where Microsoft Windows
doesn’t play so well: in markets historically dominated by Unix
boxes and mainframes.

“Once relegated to scientific markets, these vendors are
branching out. Their new ventures into enterprise computing and
successes in high-performance computing (HPC) markets are covered
in this report…”


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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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