By John Geralds, VNU
Net
A group of former executives from AMD, Apple and EDS have set up
a company to develop and market Linux based systems.
LinuxSolve, which was formally announced this week, was
originally established last year as a portal website for small and
medium sized businesses, but it decided to develop products
instead.
The company is marketing three server appliances: an entry level
server called Intersolve and the more powerful Speedsolve and
Websolve systems. LinuxSolve’s QuadraSolve Secure Server Cluster is
now in beta testing.
Andrew Kaufman, LinuxSolve co-founder and director of marketing,
said: “We wanted to have a concrete product and not just be an
internet company.”
LinuxSolve was formed by president and chief executive Thomas
Knapp, who previously worked at AMD and EMC, and Kaufman, who was
most recently director of communications at Linux hardware systems
startup Penguin Computing.
LinuxSolve’s director of technology is Marc Rostzow, who
previously worked at Apple. Kaufman said the company has secured
several other executives from Fujitsu and Bain and Company, but
declined to name them.
“We tried to find out why Linux wasn’t penetrating the
market,” said Kaufman, adding that LinuxSolve’s goal is to make the
operating system easy to use and secure.
The company has added browser based remote administration tools
to the system to simplify setup and administration, and it is using
a hardened version of the Red Hat Linux operating system. This
ships with several enhanced security features, including protection
against so-called stack smashing security breaches and an extension
that prevents applications, such as poorly written CGI scripts,
from gaining access to restricted system resources.
LinuxSolve will target small and medium sized businesses, ISPs
and application service providers through its website and reseller
network. The company will sell prepackaged products that include
AMD and Intel based hardware platforms, software applications, plus
consulting.
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