Turbolinux Speeds Enterprise Acceptance of Linux.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 18, 2002 Company Adopts Open Source Alliance Recommendations, Helps Increase Linux Adoption Linux adoption refers to the uptake of the Linux operating system by homes, organisations and governments. Linux migration refers to the change over to Linux from other operating systems. for High-End, Mission-Critical Operations Turbolinux, Inc., a worldwide leader in Linux operating environments and multi-platform software deployment and management products, today said that Turbolinux 7 Server, the first Linux distribution to conform to Li18NUX 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 standards, will extend its support for enterprise computing by implementing the recommendations of the Enterprise Linux Alliance. Alliance members 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) , Fujitsu Limited, Hitachi Limited, and 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. Corp. joined together in May 2001 to collaborate on enterprise Linux development by expanding the scalability, reliability, and availability of the platform. The group's most recent effort has centered on the Linux Kernel Crash Dump (LKCD LKCD Linux Kernel Crash Dumps ). The LKCD is focused on improving the reliability of memory dump capabilities and the efficiency of memory analysis required for analyzing OS failures. Turbolinux 7 Sever has already implemented the alliance's LKCD recommendations. (Editors: see "Turbolinux 7 Server, First-Ever Linux Distribution to Conform to Internationalization Standard Specifications," November 7, 2001 and "Tech Industry Leaders Join Forces In An Open Consortium To Support Next-Generation Computing," December 19, 2001). Turbolinux works closely with several industry-wide groups including the LI18NUX, LSB (Linux Standard Base) A standard interface (ABI) for Linux from the Linux Foundation (www.linux-foundation.org). Introduced in 2001 by the Free Standards Group, which later became the Linux Foundation, applications based on the LSB standard will run properly under , and the Atlas consortium toward the common goal of expanding Linux acceptance and use within the enterprise. "This is just further proof of Turbolinux's on-going commitment to supporting enterprise customers with their adoption of Linux for mission-critical operations," said Ly-Huong Pham, 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. of Turbolinux. "At Turbolinux, we envision a future where Linux is pervasive in the enterprise. The stability of Linux, running on mainframes or servers, delivers the reliability, availability, and scalability necessary for everything from back-end databases, to supercomputing and Internet edge servers." Enterprise Features Help Linux Win Converts Turbolinux 7 Server supports several enterprise features including Large File Support (LFS LFS Linux from Scratch LFS Labour Force Survey (UK) LFS Live for Speed (computer racing simulation) LFS London Film School LFS Log-Structured File System (Unix, BSD) ) for files up to four terabytes in size. Such support is critical for archival storage and extremely large data sets. The popularity of Linux for animation production and for scientific clustering combined with the ever-increasing performance of x86 hardware underscores the need for LFS and LKCD. In addition, Turbolinux 7 Server supports the Logical Volume Manager (LVM LVM Logical Volume Manager LVM Liikenne- ja Viestintäministeriö (Finnish: Ministry of Transport and Communications; Helsinki) LVM Left Ventricular Mass LVM Landwirtschaftlicher Versicherungsverein Muenster ), which provides flexible disk volume management. LVM allows customers to manage storage more simply by seamlessly combining multiple disk drives and partitions into easy to manage storage. About Turbolinux Founded in 1992, Turbolinux(R) Inc. is a global software company providing Linux operating environments and multi-platform software deployment and management products that allow computing assets to be quickly redefined on demand -- enabling true flexible processing power. Backed by some of the world's leading technology companies, including Compaq, Dell, Fujitsu, Hitachi, IBM, Intel, NEC, Novell, Oracle, SGI (SGI, Sunnyvale, CA, www.sgi.com) A manufacturer of workstations and servers, founded in 1982 by Jim Clark. The company was founded as Silicon Graphics, Inc., but changed to its acronym in 1999. and Toshiba, Turbolinux is headquartered near San Francisco with offices around the world. For more information, visit the Turbolinux Web site at http://www.turbolinux.com. Turbolinux is a registered trademark of Turbolinux, Inc. Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds. All other registered trademarks belong to their respective holders. |
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