Linux cluster companies attract new funds
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Venture capitalists are lavishing money on the fashionable Linux supercomputing concept--but smaller firms face much larger rivals.
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A win in the nuclear submarine cluster market suggests that IBM's POWER architecture is joining the Linux HPC big leagues.
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IBM (NYSE: IBM), Sun Microsystems (Nasdaq: SUNW) and other technology companies recently "donated" portions of their software to the open-source community. But those donations are not motivated by corporate generosity; there are tactics and strategies behind these moves.
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A former Microsoft executive and other tech bigwigs fund SourceLabs, an open-source start-up focused on maintenance and support.
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The enterprise software company is starting to see the payback from some key investments.
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The New York Stock Exchange is investing heavily in Linux systems and blade servers as it builds out the hybrid market trading system that it launched last year.
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Sybase has entered the cluster-database market with Adaptive Server Enterprise Cluster Edition.
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IBM (NYSE: IBM) has announced an initiative to make Linux applications available across the company's entire hardware line.
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A number of the larger Linux developers like Red Hat and Novell are likely to back the plan, bolstering its uptake in the market. The agreement aims to ensure compatibility between Linux versions
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For the first time, quarterly revenues of Linux servers have exceeded $1 billion, according to a report from IDC. While Linux sales accounted for just 9.2 percent of the $11.5 billion in servers sold in the
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Quiet but widely-used open source developer OpenAds secures new financing.
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Purchase of RTLinux technology--used for devices like animatronic robots--opens new markets for Wind River's embedded Linux efforts.
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Tough economic times in Germany have made Linux and other open source software products appear tantalizing to local businesses.
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Mazu Networks, the Cambridge, Massachusetts, network intrusion prevention system (IPS) technology company, has secured another round of venture capital funding, including a stake from security software giant Symantec.
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What a new venture fund says about the future of the industry.
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The past month has introduced an interesting new distribution that is based on the Gnome and Debian projects. &nbsp;Ubuntu Linux is the end-user-oriented distribution funded by Mark Shuttleworth's company Canonical. &nbsp;
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These companies are building a wall around your investment.