ComputerWire: Red Hat, IBM Ink Deal To Push Advanced Server on eServers
Posted by Kenneth Farmer, Tuesday September 17 2002 @ 06:55AM EDT
Server giant IBM Corp and commercial Linux distributor Red Hat Inc yesterday announced a deal that will see the two companies collaborate on the development, sales, and support of Red Hat's Linux Advanced Server operating system.
While the generic Red Hat Linux operating system is geared for desktops, workstations, and infrastructure workloads on modest servers with a minimum amount of services, the Linux Advanced Server edition of the Red Hat variant of Linux offers more scalability--up to eight processors in SMP servers--and more support and hand-holding than a small business or ISP would need. (A small business doesn't need a lot of services, and ISPs probably know more about Linux and how to make it sit up and bark than do any of the commercial Linux distributors.)
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