The news comes as Dell revealed it is pre-installing Red Hat Linux on two of its laptop PC models. IBM has made the first concrete plans to mark its recent commitment to the Linux operating system. The systems giant will enable its client/server...
At the show, newly profitable Red Hat will show improvements to the Red Hat Network made possible by its $1.2m acquisition in October of NOCpulse, a company whose software is used to monitor server performance and alert administrators to bottlenecks.
That cluster includes more than 2,000 Dell PowerEdge servers running Red Hat Linux. Dell Computer on Wednesday joined hands with software maker Oracle to build computing clusters. Dell will offer new clusters based on its servers, Oracle's 9i...
The Dell/EMC CX200 systems are designed for use with small-scale database applications - including Oracle 9i and Microsoft SQL - and can be configured for use in both Red Hat Linux Advanced Server and Microsoft Windows environments.
It's based on Red Hat Linux version 7.3. The program includes cluster software for tasks such as sending messages from one computer to another, monitoring each system's performance and scheduling jobs across the cluster.
While Linux was created primarily by individuals adding their own touches to the free operating system launched by Linus Torvalds in 1991, over the years it has been funnelled into a number of different versions, specifically by companies looking...