PRNewswire: SGI News Flash: SGI Makes Linux Debut at Linux Expo

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
May 17, 1999

“At the show, SGI will announce a significant contribution to
the open source community that will bolster Linux as an
enterprise-ready operating system.”

“SGI — a gold sponsor of the conference — has a long history
of working with the open source community. Recently, the company
joined Linux International, introduced support of Samba(TM) 2.0 for
its Origin(TM) server line, and released GLX and OpenVault(TM)
source code into the open source community.”

“SGI is a market leader in technical computing, offering the
world’s most powerful servers, supercomputers and visual
workstations.”


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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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