IT Manager’s Journal: An Early Linux Pioneer is Swallowed Up

“An early Linux pioneer is about to be swallowed up by a bigger
fish. Cyclades, established in 1991 as a provider of serial
communications cards for Linux, was one of the first companies to
commercially offer products designated specifically for the Linux
platform. Now Cyclades has agreed to be purchased by Avocent
Corp.

“Over the years, Cyclades has morphed into a vendor of
out-of-band infrastructure management products. OOBI enables you to
access, monitor and manage IT hardware when the network fails. In
other words, it gives you the ability to access network hardware
without using the actual network as a critical path…”

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