Printer Friendly
The Free Library
14,702,759 articles and books
Member login
User name  
Password 
 
Join us Forgot password?

HP, Red Hat Provide Selected Universities Worldwide with Grants of Red Hat Linux Software.


Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

PALO ALTO Palo Alto, city, California
Palo Alto (păl`ō ăl`tō), city (1990 pop. 55,900), Santa Clara co., W Calif.; inc. 1894. Although primarily residential, Palo Alto has aerospace, electronics, and advanced research industries.
, Calif. and RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK Research Triangle Park, research, business, medical, and educational complex situated in central North Carolina. It has an area of 6,900 acres (2,795 hectares) and is 8 × 2 mi (13 × 3 km) in size. Named for the triangle formed by Duke Univ. , N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 6, 2001--Hewlett-Packard Company (NYSE NYSE

See: New York Stock Exchange
:HWP HWP Height (and) Weight Proportionate
HWP Half-Wave Plate
HWP Highway Patrol
HWP Height Weight Proportional
HWP Hewlett-Packard Corporation (stock symbol)
HWP Hydrolyzed Whey Peptides
) and Red Hat, Inc. (Nasdaq:RHAT RHAT Red Hat (stock symbol)
RHAT Rainwater Harvesting Association of Tanzania
RHAT Register Hba Attributes
) today announced that Red Hat Linux Red Hat Linux, assembled by Red Hat, was a popular, "middle-aged" Linux distribution (not as old as Slackware but older than Ubuntu) upon its discontinuation in 2004.[1]

Red Hat Linux 1.0 was released on November 3, 1994.
 software will be donated to selected universities as part of HP and Intel(R) Corporation's Itanium(TM)-based Systems Grants program.

Red Hat Linux 7.1 operating system operating system (OS)

Software that controls the operation of a computer, directs the input and output of data, keeps track of files, and controls the processing of computer programs.
 will be provided to the 40 universities that received grants from the program. Red Hat also will provide those universities with a one-year subscription to Red Hat Network, an open source information and software service.

"HP is pleased to work with Red Hat to provide grant recipients with key enabling technology for Linux research, which will also extend the deployment of open systems," said Martin Fink, general manager, HP Linux Systems Operation. "This research should significantly advance Linux on the Itanium architecture -- unlocking the potential of this technology and ultimately benefiting HP customers."

Announced in September, the HP and Intel Itanium-based Systems Grant Program is a $2.5 million joint effort between HP and Intel in which HP servers and workstations based on the Itanium processor are donated to selected universities. The universities plan to use the systems in research areas ranging from bio-informatics and neural networks to compilers and cluster computing to computational science and scientific data mining.

HP and Red Hat are augmenting the program with donations of Red Hat Linux software to support the deployment of open source software in educational environments. By making the grant resources available to university researchers, HP and Red Hat hope to accelerate the development of next-generation Linux applications for Itanium-based systems.

"Open source software demonstrates another dimension of its flexibility when used in an educational environment," said Michael Tiemann, chief technology officer, Red Hat. "Along with cost-of-ownership and IT security advantages for the universities, open source software provides a tremendous platform for academic research that can further advance the applications of Linux."

"Illinois is honored to have the opportunity to take part in the Itanium-based Systems Grants Program. HP, Intel and Red Hat are providing an ideal technological engine for our planned research," said Professor Wen-Mei Hwu of the University of Illinois University of Illinois may refer to:
  • University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (flagship campus)
  • University of Illinois at Chicago
  • University of Illinois at Springfield
  • University of Illinois system
It can also refer to:
, Urbana-Champaign. "This grant will enable us to accelerate our research in code optimizations and operating system performance and, in turn, make Itanium-based systems and Linux even more powerful solutions in the research community."

About Red Hat

Red Hat is the leader in developing, deploying and managing solutions built on the benefits of an open source platform. The open source platform includes the Red Hat Linux operating system for mainframes, servers, workstations and embedded devices, GNUPro tools for developers, database, e-Commerce, secure Web server (1) A server on the Web that supports one or more of the major security protocols such as SSL, SHTTP and PCT. This means that order form data from your browser is encrypted before being sent (uploaded) to the Web site, making it extremely difficult for a third party to decipher , high availability server and run-time solutions like eCos and RedBoot. For this platform, Red Hat provides end-to-end professional services including Professional Consulting, Engineering services, Technical Support services support services Psychology Non-health care-related ancillary services–eg, transportation, financial aid, support groups, homemaker services, respite services, and other services , and Global Learning services. Red Hat Network is the premier Internet-based service that simplifies and integrates the deployment and management of these offers. More information about Red Hat is available at www.redhat.com. Red Hat is headquartered in Research Triangle Park, N.C. and has offices worldwide. For investor inquiries, contact Gabriel Szulik at Red Hat, +1 919 547 0012 ext. 439.

About HP

Hewlett-Packard Company -- a leading global provider of computing and imaging solutions and services -- is focused on making technology and its benefits accessible to all. HP had total revenue from continuing operations continuing operations

Parts of a business that are expected to be maintained as an ongoing segment of an overall business operation. Income and losses from continuing operations are reported separately if any segments have been discontinued during the
 of $48.8 billion in its 2000 fiscal year. Information about HP and its products can be found on the World Wide Web at http://www.hp.com.

Intel and Itanium are trademarks or registered trademarks of Intel Corporation or its subsidiaries in the United States and in other countries.

LINUX is a trademark of Linus Torvalds.

RED HAT is a registered trademark of Red Hat, Inc.
COPYRIGHT 2001 Business Wire
No portion of this article can be reproduced without the express written permission from the copyright holder.
Copyright 2001, Gale Group. All rights reserved. Gale Group is a Thomson Corporation Company.

 Reader Opinion

Title:

Comment:



 

Article Details
Printer friendly Cite/link Email Feedback
Publication:Business Wire
Geographic Code:1USA
Date:Nov 6, 2001
Words:635
Previous Article:Ohio Hospital Association Names InSiteOne To Corporate Partner Program; InDex Web-Enabled Service to Securely Store and Distribute Digital Medical...
Next Article:Multimedia Available: Multifoods Announces Key Additions to Senior Management Team.
Topics:



Related Articles
HP Firehunter Internet Service-Management Family Now Supports Red Hat Linux Operating System.
HP Embraces Linux, Adds Red Hat to Covision Program.
Dell Announces Factory-Installation of Red Hat Linux 6.0 On Server, WorkStation and Business Desktop Systems; Dell First With Multiprocessing...
Compaq and Red Hat Expand UNIX-Linux Compatibility, And Unveil Linux-Certified Desktop PCs and Workstations.
Red Hat corrects and replaces previous announcement; Red Hat and HP Announce World-Wide Sales Initiative.
Red Hat and HP Announce World-Wide Sales Initiative.
Red Hat Linux 6.2 Available for Compaq Customers; Red Hat and Compaq to Deliver Industry Leading Red Hat Linux Platforms through a Global OEM...
Red Hat Linux 7 Available for Compaq Alpha; Red Hat and Compaq to Deliver Latest Version of Leading Open Source Operating System for the Alpha...
Red Hat Accelerates UNIX-to-LINUX Migration by Announcing the First Enterprise-Class Linux Operating System.
PLATFORM BUILDS MORE COMPLEX APPLICATIONS.

Terms of use | Copyright © 2009 Farlex, Inc. | Feedback | For webmasters | Submit articles