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To: hometown35 who wrote (69005)	1/29/2000 9:32:00 PM
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Rekindled Linux interest......New Linux Wares Span The Spectrum (01/28/00, 3:34 p.m. ET) By Mike Koller, InternetWeek A number of Linux products on tap promise to advance the operating system's momentum and solidify its enterprise readiness. At a Linux trade show next week, vendors will take the wraps off Linux-based storage management wares, developers' tool kits, and a high-end Linux implementation. The products underscore the steady, meaningful progress Linux is making at the expense of Microsoft, said Giga Information Group analyst Rob Enderle. "[The products have] made some real gains in terms of hardware devices, so for once there's an argument that they can be on the desktop," he said. "Before it was hype and not a lot of substance and a lot of wishful thinking, but now we've got some substance." One executive said Linux must be taken seriously. "We're doing a lot to deploy Linux throughout our organization, and being a fresh new technology, there's a lot of new products out there I'd like to take a look at," said Mike Prince, chief information officer of Burlington Coat Factory. "The extent to which that stuff exists is the extent to which Linux will move up." At next week's LinuxWorld Conference and Expo in New York, Veritas Software will demonstrate two products designed for Linux. The products -- Veritas Volume Manager and Veritas Cluster Server -- will be available in the second half. Volume Manager is storage management software that provides high availability disk and array storage supporting the RAID standard and is targeted at demanding applications, such as database management systems. Cluster Server is designed for high-availability server clustering and currently runs on HP-UX and Sun Solaris. It provides up to 32-node clustering for Linux systems. The company said pricing for the two products has not been set. Meanwhile, Linux vendor Red Hat Systems will announce a $599 embedded developers' kit, available in March, said Red Hat chief technology officer Michael Tiemann. The Red Hat ToolSuite will make it easier for developers who have a Linux distribution to bring it to embedded platforms, such as Internet appliances, set-top boxes, or GPS. The development tool supports the C and C++ programming languages. "Linux depends on the availability of applications and the availability of tools [that] drive applications," Tiemann said. "Delivering applications for next-generation Internet appliances and embedded devices requires an integrated development environment like the Red Hat ToolSuite. It enables developers to run Linux in embedded environments and develop applications portable across a range of pervasive computing devices." Caldera Systems will release Open Linux eServer 2.3, which Erik Hughes, director of product marketing, said is optimized to run on servers based on Pentium IIs and above, making it suitable for e-business and other critical applications. It can support up to 4 gigabytes of memory, and it supports the raw I/O and dynamic file descriptors. It also features remote administration capabilities that enable the server to be managed from afar. It comes packaged with IBM's WebSphere and VisualAge products. Caldera Open Linux eServer 2.3 will cost $199 and will be available in February. Watch for rebound in COBT and LNUX as well as Corel and Redhat next week.