Inside the opengear, Linux powered console server | Linux Today

Inside the opengear, Linux powered console server

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
May 17, 2011

“Console servers are critical bits of infrastructure, that many
of us tend to overlook. Not so for opengear – a company whose sole
purpose is to build console servers leveraging open source software
for both the OS and the underlying application.

“I’ve been writing about opengear for the last 6 years or so,
when they first introduced an open source KVM (Keyboard, Video,
Mouse) solution. The company has since grown into bigger servers
and broader monitoring capabilities.”


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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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