Press Release from SGI (Part) (from http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/000226/ca_sgi_sus_1.html: SGI and SuSE to Bring High-Availability Functionality to Linux Joint High-Availability Linux Project Announced at CeBIT Conference CEBIT 2000, HANNOVER, Germany, Feb. 26 /PRNewswire/ -- At the CeBIT 2000 conference, the world's largest information technology exhibition, SGI (NYSE: SGI - news) and SuSE Linux AG today announced the initiation of a joint engineering project to bring IRIS FailSafe(TM), SGI's high-availability clustering software, to the Linux� operating system. The two companies announced their plans to develop a version of IRIS FailSafe for high-availability applications in Linux environments. ``High availability is an important piece of the puzzle. Having this technology available for Linux will be very important to companies that use Linux in production environments. I am happy to see SGI and SuSE cooperate to bring a Linux version of IRIS FailSafe to Open Source,'' said Linus Torvalds, creator of Linux. IRIS FailSafe running on Linux will enable a user to link two or more servers together so that one transparently picks up the computing load should the other fail. An IRIS FailSafe cluster running on Linux will remove any single point of failure and allow applications to increase availability to the level required for mission-critical data center operations. This failover capability is an important component of the maturation of Linux in an enterprise computing environment. In addition to the resulting product, the two companies will bring valuable expertise to the Open Source community through their combined experience and talent. SGI has extensive knowledge of high-availability technology and has focused on advancing open source technology for several years. SuSE Linux AG also has long-standing experience and credibility with Linux and the Open Source Software community. --------------------------------- On the Linux-HA list, One of the people working on this for SuSe(Lars Marowski-Bree) passed on that it will be GPL. Alan Robertson, the leader of the Linux-HA project, is also going to work for SuSe. one more step up the ladder. jeff smith ********************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the following text in the *body* (*not* the subject line) of the letter: unsubscribe gnhlug **********************************************************
