IBM LAUNCHES LINUX-BASED SERVER, SOFTWARE PACKAGE.(Reuters) - IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) Corp. said last Tuesday Last Tuesday is a Christian melodic punk rock band hailing from Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. They played their final show on March 10th, 2007. Last Tuesday was formed in 1999 in Harrisburg, P.A. that it has begun selling groups of server computers with system management software and the Linux 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. in a move that the computer giant says will expand the use of Linux. Linux is free open-source software free open-source software - free software , which means that all code is public and can be adapted by companies and individuals. It competes with other operating systems Operating systems can be categorized by technology, ownership, licensing, working state, usage, and by many other characteristics. In practice, many of these groupings may overlap. , such as the popular Unix operating system Noun 1. UNIX operating system - trademark for a powerful operating system UNIX, UNIX system operating system, OS - (computer science) software that controls the execution of computer programs and may provide various services . Combining Linux-based computing systems with management software can make it easier for corporations to use Linux-based server groups to run Internet applications like transaction processing, Armonk, New York-based IBM said. "What this really does is makes it easier to deploy a Linux cluster because of combination of hardware, software and services," said Stacey Quandt, an associate analyst at Giga Information Group. Linux is appealing because of its price and performance, which can be less than with a comparable Unix-based system, Quandt said. Currently, universities and research labs are the largest users of Linux clusters because they have the technical expertise needed to set up the systems, IBM said. The systems can entail from four to 1,000 different computers working together on the same application. Linux is already creeping into more commercial markets, like in the movie business, where studios use it to work on special effects and animation. "We've moved away from a bag-of-parts kind of business, which is the way a lot of people have been acquiring clusters today, which is that they get a whole bunch of parts and then assembly is required, to a state where we deliver the finished product," said IBM's Dave Turek, vice president of emerging technologies. The servers are standardized and based on microprocessors, or the brains of the computer, from Intel Corp. |
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