“A handful of Linux vendors this week will introduce new
products and features that should make the operating system more
attractive for use in enterprise networks.“
“Leading the charge is Red Hat Software, which develops the
leading commercial version of Linux. The company is introducing Red
Hat Linux 6.1, which is based on the 2.2.12 kernel and features
graphical installation tools for deploying desktop (GNOME and KDE),
server or custom interfaces. Red Hat also added load balancing for
TCP services and a graphical update tool…”
“Separately, development tool vendor Inprise is trying to fill
the Linux applications gap. Early next year the company will go
into beta testing with a native rapid application development tool
for Linux, code-named Kylix. The tool is a component-based,
drag-and-drop environment with support for multitier databases and
the Internet.”