The Open Source Development Lab (OSDL) announced
the formation of the Data Center Linux (DCL) Working Group with the
launch of a financial services initiative and two deliverables for Data
Center Linux. According to a Giga Information Group, Inc. report, the
OSDL Data Center Linux Initiative will fuel Linux use in financial
services.
Here is the announcement from Red Hat and AMD that Red Hat will be producing a version of its distribution for the AMD "Hammer" architecture. There is still no timeline for when one can actually get one of these nice boxes, but they will be demonstrating one at LinuxWorld.
Xandros has put out a
press release fixing the date of the first release of its Corel-derived
distribution. "The product, due to be released on September 30, 2002 and
available for purchase within three weeks after that date, is built
upon Linux kernel 2.4.19, XFree86 4.2, Debian 3.0, Corel LINUX 3.0,
and enhanced KDE."
Here is the
press release from Sun describing its new "LX50" Linux-based server.
It comes with one or two 1.4-GHz x86 processors, a bunch of Sun software
(Sun ONE, Java 2 SDK, Grid Engine, Sun Streaming Server), and an
(unspecified) Linux distribution. Entry cost is $2800.
Here's the press release from Oracle on the release of its cluster filesystem for Linux. "'By contributing source code for the Oracle cluster file system under the
General Public License, Oracle accelerates the development of key
enterprise-class clustering technologies into the Linux kernel and helps build
a truly open solution in this fast growing area,' said Alan Cox, Systems
Engineer and Fellow at Red Hat. 'This announcement reinforces Oracle's strong
commitment both to Linux and to building the best Internet software available
for the open source community.'" The filesystem was not yet posted on Oracle's site as of this writing.
IBM
will demonstrate
its DB2 relational database software running on Mandrake Linux
at the LinuxWorld Expo next week.
The DB2 database can be downloaded
here.
Here is a case study discussing how CylantSecure, a kernel-enabled
intrusion detection and defense system by the company Cylant, has
successfully thwarted nearly 100 attacks in the last three months for an
Illinois user deploying mail, name and Web service on his Linux server.
