Lutris Technologies Teams With TurboLinux to Offer Open Source e-Business Platform; Open Source Pioneers Team up to Advance Scalability of Open Source Solutions.Business/Technology Editors SANTA CRUZ Santa Cruz, city, United States Santa Cruz (săn`tə kr  z), city (1990 pop. 49,040), seat of Santa Cruz co., W Calif., on the north shore of Monterey Bay; inc. 1866. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 13, 2000
Lutris Technologies Inc., and TurboLinux Inc., today announced a joint effort to certify and distribute the Enhydra Java/XML application server for the TurboLinux 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. . The partnership creates a scalable Open Source foundation for enterprise e-business application development and deployment. "TurboLinux is building its products to support e-business infrastructure," said Craig Oda, vice president of strategic alliances at TurboLinux. "Our customers are asking for Internet application development environments in Linux. Enhydra offers an excellent solution." TurboLinux is the fastest growing Open Source operating system. Enhydra is the leading Open Source Java/XML application server. Combined, these technologies enable users to rapidly build and deploy scalable e-business applications. The two Open Source technologies together provide a solid platform for future development, and the partnership ensures that developers will have world-class training, certification and support for Enhydra on TurboLinux. TurboLinux, a leader in Linux clustering, software and services for Linux in the Pacific Rim Pacific Rim, term used to describe the nations bordering the Pacific Ocean and the island countries situated in it. In the post–World War II era, the Pacific Rim has become an increasingly important and interconnected economic region. , also represents a new opportunity for Enhydra distribution in foreign markets. "Clearly, this relationship provides further proof of the Open Source movement's penetration into the mainstream," said Steven Garone, program director at International Data Corporation. "Together, Lutris and TurboLinux have given IT managers a comprehensive Open Source development platform from which to build robust and scalable n-tier e-business applications. Development in the Open Source environment has come of age." Lutris and TurboLinux will work together to promote the Open Source e-business platform. Enhydra will be distributed on the TurboLinux companion CD and listed in the TurboLinux Application Directory as a premier development environment. Lutris will provide support, training and professional services (job) professional services - A department of a supplier providing consultancy and programming manpower for the supplier's products. for Enhydra applications running on TurboLinux. "Enhydra and TurboLinux provide a solid foundation for start-ups and large corporate enterprises alike to gain real competitive advantage through an Open Source strategy," said Gillian Webster, vice president of marketing at Lutris. "We're closing the gap that until now has limited the acceptance of Open Source technology in corporate IT departments." The two companies kicked off their alliance on March 6 at the Linux World Expo Conference and Exhibition in Sydney, Australia, where TurboLinux conducted demonstrations that highlight the benefits of Enhydra on the TurboLinux platform. About Lutris Technologies Lutris Technologies, an Open Source enterprise software and services company, is the original developer and sponsor of Enhydra (www.enhydra.org), the industry's leading Open Source Java/XML application server. Lutris supports a forum and maintains the infrastructure for the Enhydra development community, a rapidly growing group of developers from around the world who have adopted Enhydra as the foundation for a broad range of Internet projects and applications. Lutris Professional Services provides strategy and Internet-application development services to the Enhydra community and to Internet-savvy businesses. Clients range from entrepreneurs and companies launching new Web ventures to Fortune 500 IT organizations growing their business with an online presence. About TurboLinux Inc. Founded in 1992, TurboLinux is the world's fastest-growing Linux company, with investment backing from more than 20 global hardware, software and services companies, including BEA BEA - Basic programming Environment for interactive-graphical Applications, from Siemens-Nixdorf. , Compaq, Dell, Fujitsu Support and Services, Intel, NEC (NEC Corporation, Tokyo, www.nec.com, www.necus.com) An electronics conglomerate known in the U.S. for its monitors. In Japan, it had the lion's share of the PC market until the late 1990s (see PC 98). NEC was founded in Tokyo in 1899 as Nippon Electric Company, Ltd. , Novell, NTT NTT Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation NTT New Technology Telescope NTT National Technology Transfer, Inc NTT Name That Tune (TV game show) NTT National Tree Trust NTT Number Theoretic Transform , SCO (The SCO Group, Lindon, UT, www.sco.com) A leading vendor of Unix operating systems for the x86 platform. SCO had also offered Linux, but abandoned the line in the spring of 2003. The SCO Group is the combination of two companies: Utah-based Caldera, Inc. and Toshiba. A market leader in Linux software clustering solutions and Linux internationalization The support for monetary values, time and date for countries around the world. It also embraces the use of native characters and symbols in the different alphabets. See localization, i18n, Unicode and IDN. internationalization - internationalisation , the company's high-performance consumer and business Linux products run on Intel, Alpha and PowerPC workstation and server platforms and are supported globally by 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) , Hewlett-Packard and SCO. Headquartered in San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden , TurboLinux has regional offices in Hamburg, Tokyo, Beijing and Sydney. The company's home page is located on the Internet at www.turbolinux.com, in Japanese at www.turbolinux.co.jp and in Chinese at www.turbolinux.com.cn. Lutris and Enhydra are registered trademarks of Lutris Technologies, Inc. TurboLinux is a registered trademark of TurboLinux, Inc. Linux is a trademark of Linus Torvalds Linus Benedict Torvalds (born December 28 1969 in Helsinki, Finland) is a Finnish software engineer best known for initiating the development of the Linux kernel. . |
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