“Microsoft, Sun Microsystems and other operating system vendors
will try to impress the high-powered financial services industry
this week with top-of-the-line offerings.”
“The Linux vendors aren’t conceding the high-end space to
the big boys. Indeed, TurboLinux and SuSE have both fielded
products in the Linux clustering space. TurboLinux has said it is
interested in challenging not just mainframe operating systems, but
supercomputer systems as well. At the same time, The Beowulf
Project, a NASA research project that currently is hosted by Scyld
Computing Corp., is tackling the high-end Linux clustering
challenge.”
“Next week, SteelEye Technology will unveil a Linux port of
LifeKeeper, the NCR clustering failover product that SteelEye
acquired late last year. SteelEye officials claim LifeKeeper for
Linux will help make Linux synonymous with high availability and
reliability, as it will bring more than just load balancing
support to the operating system. And SteelEye is in the midst of
porting other former NCR high-end applications, such as software
RAID and disaster recovery, to Linux as well.”