http://www.ibm.com/university ----- Forwarded by Ricardo Mandel/Argentina/IBM on 23/06/2004 17:40 ----- "Linux Line" <linux_line@dbta. To: Ricardo Mandel/Argentina/IBM@IBMAR com> cc: Subject: The New IBM Linux Line 23/06/2004 15:40 The New IBM LinuxLine June 23, 2004 Hosted on an IBM Welcome to The New IBM LinuxLine: Published by eServer xSeries IBM, The New IBM LinuxLine provides a concise Running Linux biweekly report of news and insight of interest to IT managers responsible for Linux deployments and the hands-on Linux community. 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To subscribe, click here. .LINUX NEWS Linuxcare Relaunches as Levanta Database Trends and In a move that completes its transformation to a Applications Magazine data center software developer and builds on the positive reception of its initial product, Linuxcare, Inc. has announced its relaunch as a Every month Database new company and the change of its name to Levanta, Trends and Applications Inc. The company also announced the availability magazine provides of Levanta's Release 3 for PC Servers that enables perspective, insight, data centers to benefit from managing a scale-out practical applications architecture on Linux. articles, peer ..... "The occasion for changing the name experience and market officially is that we have released a new product, research on data Release 3 of Levanta for the PC Server platform," integration, data Abigail Domine, director of marketing, said. "The center trends, business previous two releases had been for the IBM intelligence, data mainframe platform. We've had great success with warehousing and the that platform and extended it to the PC platform." full range of topics ..... Domine noted, "The former company, embraced within data Linuxcare, had originally begun as a services lifecycle management. company and we felt that the name Linuxcare still Subscribe today! really represented the legacy services business. We still had confusion in the marketplace about whether we were a services company or an enterprise software company. Since we are really, truly an enterprise software company, we wanted to reflect that with the name. We're looking at this as launching a new company that happens to have the technology from the old company, as well." ..... Levanta will continue to develop data center-proven software that allows IT organizations to capitalize on the benefits of Linux on PC server computing platforms as well as on the mainframe. The Levanta Release 3 for PC Server software from Levanta, Inc. offers: rapid provisioning and application package creation for broad-scale deployment; the ability to activate and hibernate servers in minutes; authoritative change control or prevention with granular rollback; seamless transition between virtual servers and physical hardware; and support for disaster recovery and server version control. Levanta's platform manages Linux on Intel PC Servers and IBM mainframes. For more information on Levanta, which is headquartered in San Francisco, go to www.levanta.com. Mainsoft's Visual MainWin Eases Migration to Linux Mainsoft Corp., a cross-platform development company, has inked deals with Computer Associates and Siebel Systems for Visual MainWin, which allows enterprise customers to use .NET development tools and skills to create Linux-based Web applications and Web services. "IBM is delivering credibility to Linux as a strong alternative to Windows," said Yaakov Cohen, president and CEO of Mainsoft. "This makes it easier to migrate from Windows to Linux." ..... Visual MainWin enables C# and Visual Basic .NET developers to rapidly develop Web applications and Web services for Tomcat using ASP.NET and Microsoft's Visual Studio .NET development software. "The Microsoft development culture is different than the Linux development culture," Cohen pointed out. "This will help Microsoft-centric shops accelerate their use of Linux. It brings the .NET languages to the J2EE platform." ..... Many companies, he noted, are developing applications that run J2EE on the back end and .NET on the front end. "This allows them to run code cross their platform without being trapped," Cohen said. Linux Networx Offers Grid Solution Linux Networx has announced its ability to provide grid-enabled cluster computing solutions. Its Evolocity cluster solution from Linux Networx can be deployed with grid software from Platform Computing and open source grid standard Globus to help customers make better use of IT resources and run jobs across a grid infrastructure. Linux Networx provides cluster computing solutions based on the Linux operating system coupled with the company's Evolocity hardware and Integrated Cluster Environment (ICE) cluster management software and appliance. The company offered the first commercially available Linux cluster in 1997. "We see grid technology moving from high performance computing to the enterprise," Eric Pitcher, vice president, product marketing, told The New IBM LinuxLine in a private interview. "Because of cost pressures, clusters will be more widely used in the enterprise." ..... The main barrier, he added, is the cost of parallelizing existing software applications to make effective use of distributed memory. The goal of grid computing is to enable different computing systems, which may be geographically dispersed, to dynamically and virtually share applications, data and computational resources. With grid-enabled cluster systems, organizations can make better use of existing computing resources by providing users with a single, aggregated source of computing power. .INSIDE LINUX AT IBM IBM Linux Briefings In Selected Cities IBM is sponsoring a series of complimentary briefings focused on how to help companies "speed-start" their Linux applications. To be held in selected cities in July, Linux experts will examine the large-scale adoption of Linux as the computing platform of choice in governments and large corporations, and the benefit of adopting Linux. These sessions will demonstrate the ease of migrating a Windows NT-based infrastructure to Linux and include demonstrations illustrating the simplicity of moving file, print, Web and application servers to Linux, as well as migrating domain controllers, mail servers, databases and applications. Topics will also include migration strategies for moving a Windows-based desktop environment to Linux and developing applications for Linux. The briefings will be held in New York, Boston, Denver and Minneapolis. For details, click here. Support for Multi-Linux Distributions on POWER Systems Independent Software Vendors (ISV) can extend their application portfolios and drive new revenues by expanding their Linux on POWER services to include Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3, SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 8 and Turbolinux Enterprise Server 8 support. Supporting multiple Linux distributions on POWER systems can be a smart business decision. Standards make it is easy to enable applications across distributions. For a complete roadmap to enabling applications across Linux distributions on POWER and for resources IBM can offer to assist in this process, click here. ..... For more information on events, briefing, Webinars, conferences and educational opportunities for Linux offered by IBM and others, click here. .SPOT LIGHT Linux on the xSeries Extends its Reach Based in Germany, Friedrich Grohe AG & Co. is a leading supplier of water technology solutions, including bathroom and kitchen fittings, faucets and showers. The undisputed market leader in Germany and Europe, Grohe is the largest exporter of bathroom fittings in the world. Cutting edge information technology has played an important role at Grohe. Currently, a mobile sales application based on mySAP Customer Relationship Management (mySAP CRM) Mobile Sales running on IBM eServer xSeries under the Linux operating system is an important element of its enterprise information efforts. According to Grohe officials, the SAP/Linux/xSeries package offered clear advantages in performance, reliability, manageability and cost. ..... Applications like the one at Grohe demonstrate the evolution of the use of Linux on the IBM eServer xSeries, IBM's Intel-based server platform. "We have seen a dramatic shift in the use of Linux among our customers," said Leo Suarez, Vice President and Business Line Executive, xSeries in the IBM Server Group. Linux on xSeries servers was first used on basic information infrastructure applications such as print and file serving, he noted. Next, Linux on xSeries emerged as the platform to extended serving. Now, however, Linux on xSeries is being deployed for complex enterprise level application such as enterprise resource management and human resource applications. For the rest of the story, go to www-1.ibm.com/linux/. .ABOUT US The New IBM LinuxLine is produced for IBM by Unisphere Media, publishers of Database Trends and Applications magazine and the 5 Minute Briefing family of e-mail newsletters. For more information, go to www.dbta.com or e-mail [email protected]. 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