Red Hat Supports the Complete IBM eServer Line for the Next Phase of e-Business.Business/Technology Editors 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)--Oct. 9, 2000 Red Hat is the First Linux Developer to Offer Complete Package of 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) Software,and eServer Line, Along With Services, for Linux Red Hat, Inc., (Nasdaq:RHAT RHAT Red Hat (stock symbol) RHAT Rainwater Harvesting Association of Tanzania RHAT Register Hba Attributes ), the leader in developing, deploying and managing open source Internet infrastructure, today announced its support of IBM's new eServer(a), the next generation of servers created to handle the unparalleled demands of e-business. IBM's newly introduced eServer line is built around open standards Specifications for hardware and software that are developed by a standards organization or a consortium involved in supporting a standard. Available to the public for developing compliant products, open standards imply "open systems;" that an existing component in a system can be replaced and features mainframe-class reliability and scalability while providing capacity on demand to meet the intense requirements of today's high-speed networks. With this announcement, 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. (tm) will run on the entire IBM eServer This article is about the IBM family of computer servers. For the open access electronic text archive, see EServer.org. IBM eServer was a family of computer servers from IBM Corporation. line and all of IBM's Linux-enabled software, providing customers application flexibility across a variety of platforms from large enterprises to small businesses. Red Hat and IBM entered an agreement in August 2000 ("IBM and Red Hat Collaborate to Deliver e-business Software Solutions for Linux") to jointly market, distribute and support bundled IBM, Lotus, Tivoli and Red Hat software offerings. For more information and availability of these offerings, please see www.redhat.com/products/software. "With the eServer launch just last week, it's exciting to see the entire line embraced by Red Hat - the industry-leading Linux developer," said Dick Sullivan, vice president, Solutions and Integration Marketing, IBM Software. "Red Hat clearly understands the demands placed on companies implementing e-business on Linux and can now offer customers support across highly scaleable server and middleware lines delivering an integrated solution for the smallest business to the largest enterprise." The IBM eServer family is designed for serious e-business -- where customers need 24x7 reliability and security. The new line combines IBM's best server assets, including years of expertise in developing servers and the software that works best on them, with an industry-leading commitment to deliver what customers need to make their e-infrastructure work for the next phase of e-business. "IBM and Red Hat have a strong relationship that dates back to the early days of our company and has expanded several times, and we see this announcement as reinforcing IBM's commitment to Linux and to Red Hat," said Matthew Szulik Matthew J. Szulik - Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and President of Red Hat, leader of some other technology companies, such as Interleaf and MapInfo for more than 20 years. , president and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. , Red Hat, Inc. "The fact that Red Hat Linux supports the entire eServer line demonstrates the scalability, reliability and power of our offering. With Red Hat Linux and the IBM eServer line, IBM customers will have the best possible foundation on which to build their Internet infrastructure." Red Hat Linux will be supported on the complete IBM eServer Line, which includes: - IBM eServer zSeries: most reliable, mission-critical data and transaction server on earth. - IBM eServer pSeries: most powerful, technologically advanced UNIX server A medium to large-scale computer system in a network that runs under Unix. Unix servers are widely used as application servers and database servers and are available from a variety of vendors, including Sun, IBM, HP and others. . - IBM eServer iSeries: high performance, integrated business server for mid-market companies. - IBM eServer xSeries: affordable, Linux-ready, Intel-based servers with mainframe-inspired reliability technologies. In addition, Red Hat is making available today, via their Web site (www.redhat.com/products/software), the following IBM middleware: - Red Hat Linux and IBM DB2(R) Universal Database - Red Hat Linux and IBM WebSphere(R) Application Server - Red Hat Linux and Lotus Domino(R) - Red Hat Linux and IBM Small Business Pack for Linux Open Source Momentum International Data Corp. (IDC) research states that paid Linux shipments grew faster than any other server operating system See network operating system. over the past two years, and their preliminary figures for 1999 show Linux shipments hold 24.6 percent of the server operating system market, up from 15.8 in 1998. IDC also states that Red Hat holds 50.2 percent of Linux vendor market share and that Red Hat Linux is by far the most popular distribution, preferred by 68.7 percent of U.S. Linux users. Research firm Netcraft, Inc. (www.netcraft.com), states that as of May 2000, 30 percent of all public Web sites run on Linux-based 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. , making Linux the most popular choice for deploying public Web sites. IDC research shows 40 percent of all spending on Linux servers is for Internet related applications, firmly entrenching Linux servers in the Internet infrastructure. Finally, IDC predicts that by 2002, there will be more than 55 million handheld and notebook-style information appliance See Internet appliance. (hardware) Information Appliance - (IA) A consumer device that performs only a few targeted tasks and is controlled by a simple touch-screen interface or push buttons on the device's enclosure. devices and that by 2005, shipments of these appliances will exceed shipments of PCs. Red Hat's numerous alliances with industry leaders and the demand for Linux-based applications has created open source support from many of the industry's leading software and hardware manufacturers, including Dell, Compaq, Computer Associates, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Intel, Netscape, Novell, Oracle and SAP. Red Hat, Inc. Founded in 1994, Red Hat (Nasdaq:RHAT), is the leader in development, deployment and management of Linux and open source solutions for Internet infrastructure ranging from small embedded devices to high availability Also called "RAS" (reliability, availability, serviceability) or "fault resilient," it refers to a multiprocessing system that can quickly recover from a failure. There may be a minute or two of downtime while one system switches over to another, but processing will continue. clusters and secure Web servers (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 . In addition to the award-winning Red Hat Linux server operating system, Red Hat is the principle provider of GNU-based developer tools and support solutions for a wide variety of embedded processors. Red Hat provides run-time solutions, developer tools, Linux kernel The nucleus of the Linux operating system. The Linux kernel, which was developed by Linus Torvalds, was integrated with software from the GNU Project and other sources to create the actual Linux operating system. See Linux, GNU/Linux and kernel. expertise and offers support and engineering services to organizations in all embedded and Linux markets. 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(a) The IBM eServer brand consists of the established IBM e-business logo with the following descriptive term "server" following it. The IBM e-business logo, xSeries, iSeries and zSeries are all trademarks of IBM Corporation. |
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