Mandrakesoft Linux products.Mandrakesoft announced today the availability of two new products geared toward business customers; Corporate Server and Corporate Desktop. These two Linux Linux Nonproprietary operating system (OS) for digital computers. In 1991 Linus Torvalds of Finland began asking for volunteer programmers over the Internet to collaborate on the development of a UNIX-like OS for personal computers; the “1. systems have received specific development efforts to make them 'enterprise-ready". The two products feature longer development cycles and a 5-year maintenance span. Although Mandrakesoft's main focus has been to make Linux available to the largest number of users, the company has also acknowledged that Linux required specific adaptations to be functional in a business environment. Mandrakesoft introduced the first version of Corporate Server in September 2000, followed by a second version in early 2003. The new version has been thoroughly overhauled to include some major new features. The range of enterprise products extends to include Corporate Desktop; a Linux system for business desktop computing computing - computer . The new Corporate Server, based on a 2.6 kernel The nucleus of an operating system. It is the closest part to the machine level and may activate the hardware directly or interface to another software layer that drives the hardware. , is fit for almost any server task. It has configuration wizards for setting it up as a file server, print server, Web server, directory server, FTP server (networking) FTP server - A network server program or computer which responds to requests for files via FTP. A busy Internet archive site may have one or more computers dedicated to running FTP server software. These will typically have hostnames beginning with "ftp.", e.g. , and a dozen others. It is also compatible with IBM's database server, DB2. Corporate Desktop only carries software that has been thoroughly tested and known to be appropriate for a business setting. It is immediately usable USable is a special idea contest to transfer US American ideas into practice in Germany. USable is initiated by the German Körber-Stiftung (foundation Körber). It is doted with 150,000 Euro and awarded every two years. as a workstation for office/productivity tasks, groupware Software that supports multiple users working on related tasks in local and remote networks. Also called "collaborative software," groupware is an evolving concept that is more than just multiuser software which allows access to the same data. and email, and its extensible design means it can be used for other tasks as well (development for example). www.mandrakesoft/business/corporateserver |
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