[ Thanks to Matt for
this link. ]
“Computer Associates International Inc., which has pegged
Tuesday as Linux Solution Day at its CA World conference here, is
working on a range of new Linux deals, initiatives and products,
including an upcoming formal partnership with Linux solution
provider Ximian Inc.“CA is also proposing its current Event Notification Facility
(ENF) as a stand-alone product for use in the Linux community. ENF
is a set of interfaces that allow things like security products to
directly plug into the Linux kernel without having to make
source-level modifications.“‘What we want to do is open this up as a stand-alone package
and put it out in the open-source community so that Red Hat and all
the other Linux vendors can just pick it up as part of their normal
build,’ Sam Greenblatt, senior vice president and chief architect
of the Computer Associates Linux Development Group, told eWEEK on
Monday here at CA World…”