“Amid a burst of new clustering announcements comes word of
new failover safeguard software with entry-level pricing that is
easy on IT’s wallets. That news is welcome to the growing band of
managers that must ensure 24 x 7 operation of their web
sites.“
“Notable among announcements is word that Berkeley,
California-based PolyServe has forged an agreement with FreeBSD,
Inc. to ship its UnderStudy distributed server clustering software
with all new versions of FreeBSD 4.0, the open-sourced, BSD UNIX
operating system for PC-compatible computers.”
“The two firms will ship an evaluation copy of the software with
every copy of FreeBSD. “We’ve found the best way for people to
understand our product is to actually try it,” says company
President Vince Schiavo. PolyServe already offers versions of its
software for most popular versions of Linux, as well as Windows NT
and Solaris.”