From: "Brad Rutledge" <brad@altatech.com>
To: "lwn@lwn.net" <lwn@lwn.net>
Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 09:51:49 -0800
Subject: STEELEYE AND LINUX NETWORX FORM STRATEGIC OEM PARTNERSHIP TO DELIVER RELIABLE ENTERPRISE-CLASS LINUX WEB SERVER APPLIANCES

STEELEYE AND LINUX NETWORX FORM STRATEGIC OEM PARTNERSHIP TO DELIVER RELIABLE 
ENTERPRISE-CLASS LINUX WEB SERVER APPLIANCES

High Availability Linux NetworX Evolocity Clusters to Offer SteelEye's LifeKeeper® 
for Maximum Protection of Up-Time for Business-Critical Web Servers

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. and SALT LAKE CITY, Utah - SteelEye Technology, Inc., a 
leading provider of enterprise application reliability solutions, announced today 
a strategic OEM agreement with Linux NetworX, Inc. (www.linuxnetworx.com), a 
provider of large-scale clustered computer solutions for Internet, industry and 
research fields. Linux NetworX will offer SteelEye's LifeKeeper® for Linux Next 
Generation Enterprise Reliability™ platform in the solutions it provides to eBusiness 
customers requiring the highest standards of availability, reliability and performance 
for their business-critical systems, data and applications on Linux. The agreement 
also includes broad-reaching co-marketing and joint technical support activities.

"Linux NetworX customers demand turnkey high performance Linux clusters with 
unmatched system reliability - SteelEye's LifeKeeper helps us deliver highly 
available Internet solutions," said Glen Lowry, president and CEO of Linux NetworX. 
"For our high performance Internet customers, the auto failover and recovery 
capabilities of LifeKeeper, packaged with Linux NetworX Evolocityä cluster systems, 
bring system reliability to a new level."

Linux NetworX designs powerful Linux cluster systems for high performance and 
high availability needs. Evolocity is a complete cluster solution, including 
computational hardware and versatile management software, ClusterWorX®. Evolocity 
systems can outperform supercomputers and enterprise-class servers for a fraction 
of the cost. Cluster technology is a method of linking multiple compute nodes 
together to form a unified, more powerful system.

"Linux NetworX is one of our key OEM partners and we are very excited about the 
customer benefits of this alliance," said Jim Fitzgerald, president and CEO of 
SteelEye. "With LifeKeeper for Linux, Linux NetworX can offer customers a scalable, 
economical solution for protecting their business-critical environments, with 
assurance of global availability and support.''  

SteelEye's LifeKeeper for Linux maximizes the high availability of clustered 
Linux systems and applications by monitoring system and application health, maintaining 
client accessibility and providing uninterrupted data access regardless of where 
clients reside-on the corporate intranet, extranet or Internet. LifeKeeper utilizes 
industry-proven technology to automatically restore application services by either 
restarting them locally or relocating them to another server in the cluster. 
This functionality helps LifeKeeper users to eliminate risks associated with 
a single point of failure and allows Linux systems to meet the stringent availability 
requirements of mission-critical operations by creating a fault resilient environment. 

About Linux NetworX
Linux NetworX (www.linuxnetworx.com) brings its powerful cluster technology to 
those demanding high availability and high performance systems. With the use 
of cluster computer technology, a method of linking multiple computers through 
high-speed networks to form a single and more powerful system, Linux NetworX 
provides solutions for companies with high-computing needs, including Web serving, 
ISPs, ASPs, research, industry, government and other technological fields. Through 
innovative hardware, complete cluster management software and solid service and 
support, Linux NetworX provides end-to-end clustering solutions.

To date, the company has built some of the largest cluster systems in the world 
and has developed unique hardware and versatile software to facilitate overall 
system management. Linux NetworX has offices in Utah, New York, Calif. and Texas 
with various international distribution outlets. 

About SteelEye Technology, Inc.
SteelEye Technology, Inc. is the leading application reliability company providing 
the Next Generation Enterprise Reliability™ platform. SteelEye's flagship product, 
LifeKeeper®, supports all major applications, data, servers and networks and 
has been installed in Linux, Windows NT and Solaris environments on thousands 
of enterprise servers at Fortune 1000 companies worldwide, including Chase Manhattan 
Bank and AT&T Corporation. The company is privately held and has received venture 
financing from Venrock Associates, Intel Corp. and Massey Burch Capital Corp. 
SteelEye is headquartered in Mountain View, Calif. and is on the Web at www.steeleye.com. 

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CONTACT:	
Brad Rutledge
Linux NetworX
801-562-1010 ext. 218
brutledge@linuxnetworx.com

Lonnie Sue Sutton			
SteelEye Technology Inc.		
650-237-2412				
lonniesue@steeleye.com