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NETWORK WORLD NEWSLETTER: PHIL HOCHMUTH
on LINUX 06/04/01 - Today's focus: Boost for enterprise Linux Dear Wincenty Kaminski, In this issue: * Major vendors beef up enterprise Linux support * Links related to Linux * Featured reader resource _______________________________________________________________ This newsletter sponsored by Thawte FREE Apache SSL Guide from Thawte Certification Do your online customers demand the best available protection of their personal information? Thawte's guide explains how to give this to your customers by implementing SSL on your Apache Web Server. Click here to get our FREE Thawte Apache Guide. http://nww1.com/go/2928331a.html _______________________________________________________________ NEWS ALERTS NOW AVAILABLE FROM NETWORK WORLD! You have very specific information needs about a technology or technology vendor and you subscribe to a newsletter or go on- line to find out about the strategic developments in this specific area. But how do you stay up with the late-breaking news? Network World now offers six very focused News Alerts to keep you abreast of the most significant developments of the week on LANs, Storage, Network/Systems Management, The Edge, Cisco and Microsoft. As an added service, if there's impactful, late-breaking news about one of these specific technologies or vendors, by subscribing to our News Alerts, we'll let you know what it is within hours. Subscribe today at http://nww1.com/go/ad082.html _______________________________________________________________ Today's focus: Boost for enterprise Linux By Phil Hochmuth While the high-tech economy may still be depressed, several large IT vendors are continuing to invest in the development and fine-tuning of Linux for large-scale enterprise deployments. This is good news for users. Last month, IBM made some noise with two announcements in the Linux development area. Big Blue, along with NEC, Hitachi and Fujitsu, announced a new joint Linux development effort aimed at improving the management of Linux servers by developing tools to better diagnose operating system faults. The four mainframe and server makers also will add support for Non- Uniform Memory Access (NUMA) support in the Linux code, which could lead to highly-scalable, mainframe-like Linux servers. In a separate announcement, IBM launched its Linux Community Development System. The program will make IBM mainframes running virtual Linux server images available to open source developers for code testing. Developers will be able to access either a TurboLinux or SuSE distribution image running on an IBM zSeries mainframe for 30, 60 or 90 days. The program's aim is to give developers a high-powered hardware platform for developers to create enterprise-level applications for Linux. Also in the area of Linux application development, the Open Source Development Lab plans to expand by opening a second site in Tokyo, Japan. The Open Source Development Lab was started in Portland, Ore., in December to provide Linux developers with enterprise hardware as an application development platform. Observers have said that since Linux was created on low-end PC hardware, the operating system has not been scaled up to its full potential. This is because most Linux application developers, without access to their own personal mainframes, use lower-powered PCs for writing and testing their code. With large companies throwing their weight behind enterprise Linux development, users might expect to see some interesting new software products in the near future. _______________________________________________________________ To contact Phil Hochmuth: Phil Hochmuth is a staff writer for Network World, and a former systems integrator. You can reach him at mailto:phochmut@nww.com. _______________________________________________________________ RELATED EDITORIAL LINKS Check out IBM's Linux mainframe development program http://www.ibm.com/linux Read more about the OSDL http://www.osdlab.org/ IBM, NEC, Hitachi and Fujitsu team on Linux IDG News Service, 05/30/01 http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2001/0530ibmnhf.html Breaking Linux news from Network World and around the 'Net, updated daily: http://www.nwfusion.com/topics/linux.html Archive of the Linux newsletter: http://www.nwfusion.com/newsletters/linux/index.html ______________________________________________________________ FEATURED READER RESOURCE User Excellence Award If you've completed an interesting network project in the last 12 to 18 months, here's your chance to gain industry recognition for it. Network World is currently accepting nominations for its annual User Excellence Award. For more information and an online nomination form, go to http://www.nwfusion.com/nw/awards.html#excellence Deadline for submission is June 11. _______________________________________________________________ SUBSCRIPTION SERVICES To subscribe or unsubscribe to any Network World e-mail newsletters, go to: http://www.nwwsubscribe.com/news/scripts/notprinteditnews.asp To unsubscribe from promotional e-mail go to: http://www.nwwsubscribe.com/ep To change your e-mail address, go to: http://www.nwwsubscribe.com/news/scripts/changeemail.asp Subscription questions? Contact Customer Service by replying to this message. Have editorial comments? Write Jeff Caruso, Newsletter Editor, at: mailto:jcaruso@nww.com For advertising information, write Jamie Kalbach, Fusion Sales Manager, at: mailto:jkalbach@nww.com Copyright Network World, Inc., 2001 ------------------------ This message was sent to: vkamins@enron.com
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