The Register: Compaq cavalry rescues Linux clusters

“High Availability clustering can extend Linux from its
current role in network plumbling and edge tasks, such as web
serving, into the heart of the business running database and TP
jobs.

Compaq’s intervention is timely. At the Cluster File Systems
Birds-of-a-Feather session at LinuxWorld in August, Peter Braam
described how significant the Compaq SSI could prove:

“The various Linux HA Projects have fragmented really badly,” he
said. “It’s almost all proprietary, and here with one blow is a
pretty comprehensive applications platform: Oracle can failover
from node to node.”

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