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Interoperability
One
big push for interoperability required
Proprietary vendors are strongly endorsing the fact that business
solutions have to be interoperable and have started working
towards it. Though it is a small beginning a big push is required
if more vendors are to pitch in By Kushal Shah
EWA
EWA-Linux
bundles for SMBs
Customers are forcing the server OEMs to provide a certification
that business applications and hardware will play nice with
the Linux OS. Bundles at aggressive price points are additional
drivers, writes Vinita Gupta
Fragmentation
More
distros = more choice
As makers of proprietary software enter the enterprise Linux
fray with their own distributions, they are contributing to
the fragmentation of Linux, reports Kushal Shah
HPC
Tux
fuels the HPC market
Penguin-powered servers are increasingly being deployed for
HPC and driving this trend are oil & gas, government funded
research labs, EDA and pharmaceuticals says Nivedan Prakash
Case Studies
Transacting
with open source
Nivedan Prakash says that RHEL has helped Cleartrip by fetching
search responses for travel/ticketing queries faster, protecting
investments in servers and lowering TCO
Managing
subscription-based computing
Novell’s SUSE Linux Enterprise Server and eDirectory
have helped Novatium Solutions provide scalable, secure and
integrated user authentication. By Vinita Gupta
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