Wednesday LinuxWorld press release roundup
[Posted January 22, 2003 by corbet]
Here's a selection from the dozens of LinuxWorld press releases which have
found their way to our inbox:
- Dell has announced
a new set of high-density supercomputer cluster offerings.
- Egenera has
sold a number of its BladeFrame systems to JPMorgan Chase.
- HP has announced
a new set of big customers and various new offerings; the company
claims to have done $2 billion in Linux business in 2002.
- IBM's big
announcement is the availability of the Lotus iNotes client for
Linux. "In addition, IBM announced enhancements to its
Linux hardware and software offerings for Linux, including a new
reference platform that makes it easier to create Linux-based
smartphones and personal digital assistants (PDAs); Tivoli(R) systems
management software for Linux; integrated software and services for
its mainframe Linux support; as well as performance improvements for
Intel(R) processor-based Linux servers running Linux." A
separate announcement
talks about new customers, including the PGA Golf Tour.
- Linuxcare has announced
the general availability of its Levanta server consolidation software.
- LTrix Engineering is pitching
its kernel debugger (with the appealing name of "lice"); $2000/seat.
- RealNetworks has released
the code for its Helix DNA server. This pretty much completes the
set of code releases that RealNetworks promised to the community.
- Red Hat seemingly has no new products to announce at this time; instead,
the company has put
out a press release on what a good year 2002 was.
- SGI has announced
several new customers for its "Altix 3000" Linux-based
supercomputers. SGI has also announced
an expansion of its Linux developer program.
- Sun announces
the Sun ONE software stack for Linux (several new products), an
expansion of support for the Grid Engine project, the forthcoming
availability of "Mad Hatter" (Sun's Linux desktop), and a few other
things. There is also a
separate PR for the Grid Engine "portlet" code contribution.
- Sun and Ximian have announced
the availability of the "Sun ONE Connector for Ximian Evolution."
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