SGI invests in SuSENuermberg 04 December 2000 SGI and SuSE formed an alliance under which, SGI will make an undisclosed equity investment in SuSE and will work cooperatively on the development, deployment and support of the Linux operating system and infrastructure code.
Earlier this year, the companies successfully introduced Linux FailSafe , a
scalable and modular high-availability solution based on IRIS FailSafe system
software developed for the SGI IRIX operating system. Linux FailSafe
offers advanced clustering capabilities to Linux and signifies an important
step in the maturation of Linux into a platform of choice for technical
enterprise-class, high-availability applications. SGI, SuSE, and others also
cooperated in the highly regarded IA-64 Trillian Linux effort.
"The technical
precision of SuSE Linux provides the stability and reliability that is
crucial to the continuing deployment of Linux on high-end systems," said Dirk Hohndel, CTO, SuSE Linux AG. "Our alliance with SGI
broadens the availability of open source solutions to more and more technical
enterprise computing environments."
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