Big guns take Linux higher
Tuesday, 27 January 2004 17:56 EST
IBM Corp., Novell Inc., and Sun Microsystems Inc. bolstered Linux's enterprise appeal last week by detailing present and future products at the LinuxWorld Conference & Expo in New York. Hoping to accelerate acceptance for grid computing among commercial users, IBM is developing a grid-enabled version of WebSphere, code-named Cayuga. According to sources familiar with the company's plans, Cayuga is designed to make it easier to implement and manage grids.
The sources also stated that Big Blue will eventually implement Cayuga's core into other middleware products, including Tivoli and DB2.
IBM also redoubled its commitment to plant Linux more deeply on its Power processor-based servers -- the pSeries and iSeries -- and has expanded its offerings to include some 300 Linux-ready applications capable of working on both the pSeries and iSeries.
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