“Global Media…an Internet company focused on providing
e-commerce and streaming tools for media and entertainment
companies, today announced that it has won the Best Overall
Solution Award at the Penguin Playoffs in the Linux Expo held at
this week’s Comdex Fall convention in Las Vegas.”
“Global Media was nominated for the Best Overall Solution
Award by Linux Journal, the industry standard trade journal for the
community of programmers and users of the Linux operating
system. For both its broadcasting and e-commerce solutions,
Global Media has developed leading edge systems based on the Linux
operating system. More stable and scalable than alternative
operating systems, the open-source code Linux operating system is
quickly becoming the operating system of choice for large-scale
computing applications. As well as nominating Global Media for the
Best Overall Linux Solution award, Linux Journal asked Global Media
to present an article for publication in the January 2000 edition
of the Linux Journal. The article, which has already been
submitted, will focus on how Global Media has become a leader in
live multimedia streaming technology by developing innovative
systems running on the Linux operating system, including a branded
Linux encoding box placed at radio stations.”
“Marco Belmonte, technical lead, network engineering, accepted
the award on behalf of Global Media from the keynote speaker, Linus
Torvald, the creator of Linux. Commented Mr. Belmonte: “We are very
gratified to have won this award, as it reflects the cutting-edge
development work we are doing to incorporate the Linux operating
system into our e-commerce and streaming solutions. I also wish to
thank Linux Journal for nominating us for this award.”