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Weta’s Linux Cluster Creates Licensing ‘Headache’

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Web Webster
Web Webster
Aug 17, 2004

“Linux is freely available to all who care to download it, but
commercially supported distributions cost real money as New Zealand
company Weta Digital is discovering while it mulls over where to
head with its 3200-processor Linux cluster.

“IBM New Zealand’s xSeries product specialist Andrew Spurgeon
said Red Hat Advanced Server licensing is now a headache for the
company. ‘Weta is a very large Red Hat Linux site. Basically
everything it does is on Red Hat Linux with a few exceptions as
there are some Mac and Windows applications,’ Spurgeon said…”


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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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