“Linux is moving up into mission-critical enterprise
applications and down into Internet appliances. Both trends will be
on display at LinuxWorld, which opens in New York
Wednesday.
Systems management tools, considered key enablers for enterprise
use of Linux, are starting to appear. For example, last week’s deal
between Computer Associates International Inc. in Islandia, N.Y.,
and Red Hat Inc. in Research Triangle Park, N.C., to bundle the
operating system with some of CA’s systems management tools will be
touted at the show.
That’s a big deal for Linux and Windows NT user Pascal Wattiaux,
senior vice president of technologies at San Francisco-based Quokka
Sports Inc., which currently has more than 100 NT servers running
its Web site and other key applications. All of those servers are
managed through CA’s Unicenter TNG. ‘We need to know, 24 by 7,
which machine is in what state,’ said Wattiaux. Having Unicenter
TNG on Linux may allow the company to replace NT servers with
Linux, which, according to Quokka’s testing, will perform better on
the existing servers.”
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