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New Clustering Products - Beowulf Professional Edition from Scyld; Lineo Availix Vertical Clustering 1.0. Clustering, joining computers together to make a more powerful and more reliable system, is increasingly common. As these systems become more prevalent, so too are products designed to ease to way. Here are two such products.

Beowulf clusters can be defined as a series of Linux-based computers tied together to create a supercomputer. The Beowulf Professional Edition from Scyld Computing Corporation strives to make supercomputing as easy (and as economical) as possible. This product provides all the software required to create the system (on all computers) and allows control of all computers from a single interface. This version of Scyld's Beowulf product features increased hardware support, a batch queue system, automatic node addition, and more.

Lineo's clustering solution high availability product. The Availix Vertical Clustering (Availix VC) architecture consists of interconnected CompactPCI clusters (called Horizontal clusters) and data storage devices over a storage area network. Availix Vertical Clustering 1.0 features a second level of high availability load balancing, monitoring for fail over management, secured shared data, and much more.

Red Hat's new GNUPro Design Tools, Subscription Support Offerings. Red Hat announced the availability of the latest version of the Red Hat GNUPro Toolkit and Support. The latest version of the GNUPro compiler/debugger along with added subscription support options and development platform ports.

Linux for the Palm III. Empower Technologies has announced the availability of "Linux DA O/S DB v1.0," otherwise known as a Linux distribution for Palm IIIx and IIIxe handhelds. A "demo" version is available for download now; the full product appears to include proprietary applications and will not be freely distributable.

Lineo Processor Support Approaches Century Milestone. Lineo, Inc. announced support for more than 90 processors through the Lineo family of embedded system software.

Korean Air deploys Linux on the eServer. IBM and Korean Air have issued a press release describing Korean Air's deployment of Linux on an eServer system. The flight schedule inquiry system and daily revenue accounting will be running on the Linux system.

Transvirtual gets $4.0M, launches XOE device platform (LinuxDevices). Transvirtual Technologies, founded by the makers of the Kaffe Java Virtual Machine, unveiled new offices, a new round of funding and a new appliance platform. "In addition to providing an application environment and other services, Transvirtual's XOE package also includes a suite of mobile computing applications -- things like schedule, notepad, addresses, calculator, browser, and so on."

Red Hat filing 10-Q (Quarterly Report). For those interested in the details, Red Hat's report for the quarter ending May 31 is now available online.

EBIZ letter to shareholders. EBIZ Enterprises, operator of LinuxMall.com, among other things, has posted a letter to its shareholders on the fall in its stock price, which is a bit scary even by current standards. "Simply put, more working capital needs to be invested in the company immediately. Without additional working capital the company is not viable as it is currently structured."

Linux Stock Index for July 12 to July 18, 2001.

LSI at closing on July 12, 2001 ... 28.75
LSI at closing on July 18, 2001 ... 27.99

The high for the week was 29.17
The low for the week was 27.99

Press Releases:

Open source products

• Nutzwerk (Germany): Nutzwerk delivers menu controlled automatic time setting under LINUX.. Licensed under the GNU GPL.

• Rackspace Managed Hosting (SAN ANTONIO): Rackspace and PostgreSQL, Inc. Announce Offering for Hosted Open Source Database Solutions.

• RidgeRun, Inc. (Boise, ID): RidgeRun Delivers Board Support Package for TI TMS320DSC21.

• Stratabase (ABBOTSFORD, British Columbia): Stratabase CRM Software to Support Massive Handheld Device Market.

Distributions and bundled products

• Terra Soft Solutions, Inc. (Macworld, NY): Terra Soft Solutions & Total Impact Offer Integrated Solutions. Total Impact's briQ to be bundled with Terra Soft's Yellow Dog and Black Lab Linux operating systems.

Proprietary Products for Linux

• ImageStream Internet Solutions (): Enterprise Linux 2.3 for ImageStream routers available.

• LinuxWizardry Systems, Inc. (BOCA RATON, Fla.): LinuxWizardry Systems, Inc. Announces New Magic Passage VPN.

• MPI Software Technology Inc. (STARKVILLE, Miss.): MPI Software Technology, Inc. Releases VSI/Pro for Linux PPC.

• Rolland Virtual Business Systems Ltd. (MONTREAL): RVBS Launches e-Commerce-in-the-box.

Hardware and bundled products

• ArialSoft (CODY, Wyo.): ArialSoft Launches Linux-Based Rack-Mountable SMTP Mail Server: Delivers 100,000 E-mails Per Hour.

• Compaq Computer Corporation (HOUSTON): Compaq Announces Major Enhancements to Tru64 UNIX; Ships AlphaServer Systems With Industry's First 64-bit, 1 GHz Processor. The AlphaServer DS Series systems also support Linux and a Linux ADK (Advanced Developers Kit) is available for the GS Series systems.

• Dell (AUSTIN, Texas): Dell Announces Factory Installation of Red Hat Linux 7.1.

Products and Services Using Linux

• Adomo, Inc. (CUPERTINO, Calif.): Adomo to Include SpeechWorks OpenSpeech Recognizer 1.0 in New Category of Communication Servers that Speech-Enables Access to Microsoft Exchange Services. The AdomoMCS is a Linux-based server appliance.

• IBM Corporation (HAWTHORNE, N.Y.): IBM Research Demonstrates Industry's First Auditing Tool For Wireless Network Security.

• NeTraverse Inc. (AUSTIN, Texas): NeTraverse Delivers Break-Through Thin-Client Computing Solution.

• OfficeDomain (AUSTIN, Texas): OfficeDomain Adds 'Black Hat' Linux Messaging to Its Client List; MessageASAP Delivers All e-Mail, Voice & Fax Messages Regardless of Platform or Device.

• OfficeDomain Inc. (Unknown): ADVISORY/OfficeDomain Adds 'Black Hat' Linux Messaging to its Client List.

• Panasonic and Lineo, Inc. (MILPITAS, Calif. and LINDON, Utah): Panasonic DVD-RAM Drive Receives Linux Operating System Image Support from Lineo.

• TUXIA (AUGSBURG, Germany): TUXIA Releases New Version of Synthesis Environment to Enable Faster Time-to-Market for Information Appliances.

Products With Linux Versions

• Advanced Visual Systems (WALTHAM, Mass.): Gsharp Data Visualization Software by AVS Offers Linux Redhat Support, Major Enhancements for Windows Users.

• Blue Nomad (REDWOOD CITY, Calif.): Blue Nomad Releases 'WordSmith 2.0'; Latest Edition of the Word Processor for the Palm Organizer Features FineType Font Technology, Full Bookmark Support and More. Comes with a command-line document converter for Linux/Intel users.

• Blue World Communications, Inc. (BELLEVUE, Wash.): Blue World Lasso 5 Product Line to Provide Tight Integration With Leading Operating System, Database, Web Server and Web Authoring Products.

• Boulder Instruments (Longmont, Colorado): StreamStor exceeds 1.6 Terabytes of sustained recording & playback.

• Broadcom Corporation (IRVINE, Calif.): Broadcom Delivers 64-Bit MIPS-Based, Multi-Processor Solution for Broadband Networking. An evaluation board platform is available using Linux 2.4 running in 32-bit mode with full SMP support.

• Bull Infrastructure & Systems (PARIS): Bull to Create and Drive the Intel Itanium-Based Server Market With New Escala IL Servers.

• Kaspersky Labs (Moscow, Russia): Kaspersky Labs Completes the Latest Breakthrough for Unix/Linux Anti-Virus Defense.

• Kurant Corporation (SAN FRANCISCO): Kurant Partners With Dialtone Internet to Deliver E-business Solutions to Global Customer Network.

• LaCie (HILLSBORO, Ore.): LaCie Sweetens Offer on First 24x10x40x CD-RW with USB and FireWire Convenience.

• OpenPath Products (ANNAPOLIS, Md.): OpenPath Products launches DataBow a Rapid Wireless Application Development Tool and Server.

• Procom Technology (IRVINE, Calif.): NetFORCE Wins Top 'Deploy' Rating in InfoWorld Review.

• theKompany.com (Rancho Santa Margarita, Calif.): Qt Based ERD Tool for Database Administrators Now Available for Linux/Windows.

Books & Training

• O'Reilly (Sebastopol, CA): Dreamweaver 4 Missing Manual released.

• O'Reilly (Sebastopol, CA): "Managing NFS and NIS" Second Edition Released by O'Reilly.

• O'Reilly (Sebastopol, CA): O'Reilly Releases "Exim: The Mail Transfer Agent".

• Software Magazine (FRAMINGHAM, Mass.): Software Magazine Publishes Annual Software 500 Special Edition; Industry's Most Comprehensive Look at Software Providers Available Now.

Partnerships

• Guardian Digital, Inc. (Upper Saddle River, NJ): Guardian Digital Announces Corporate Partnership Program. Provides network solutions utilizing EnGarde Secure Linux and the Guardian Digital Linux Lockbox secure turnkey server appliance.

• REDSonic, Inc. and Red Flag Software Co., Ltd. (SANTA ANA, Calif.): REDSonic Forms Strategic Partnership With Red Flag, Bringing Real-Time Linux Technology Into China.

• TUXIA (TORONTO & AUGSBURG, Germany): MGI & TUXIA Announce Strategic Partnership to Provide Multimedia and TV Functionality for Entertainment Devices.

Investments and Acquisitions

• GraphOn Corporation (MORGAN HILL, Calif. & TEL AVIV, Israel): GraphOn Acquires Exclusive Rights to Menta Software's Technology to Expand Web Services Offerings.

• GraphOn Corporation (MORGAN HILL, Calif. & TEL AVIV, Israel): GraphOn Licenses Patent to Menta Software.

Personnel & New Offices

• Open Country (SANTA CLARA, Calif.): Open Country Names Olivier Miranda Vice President of Engineering; Company Expands Product Development Initiative and Reinforces Strategic Direction.

• Turbolinux, Inc. (SAN FRANCISCO): Turbolinux Names Ly-Huong Pham Chief Executive Officer.

Linux/Open Source At Work

• bayMountain (RICHMOND, Va.): Caldera's Volution Online Benefits from bayMountain Managed Infrastructure Services.

• MPI Software Technology Inc. (STARKVILLE, Miss.): Mississippi State University's New Supercluster Is Powered By MPI/Pro on Red Hat Linux.

• SGI (MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.): Tippett Studio Taps the Power of SGI Systems For 'Evolution' and 'Cats & Dogs'.

• Tridia Corporation (ATLANTA): Zhone Technologies Successfully Implements TridiaVNC eSupport.

Section Editor: Rebecca Sobol.

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