Product of the Day: UnitedLinux 1.0

Product:
UnitedLinux 1.0Manufacturer:
UnitedLinuxAddress: 401 Edgewater
Place, Suite 600     Wakefield,
Massachusetts 01880Telephone:
781-876-8989URL:
www.unitedlinux.comUnitedLinux Releases Version 1.0 of its
Enterprise-Class Operating SystemIn November 2002, UnitedLinux released Version 1.0 of its
UnitedLinux product, a standards-based Linux operating system
targeted at the business user. UnitedLinux is the result of an
industry initiative to streamline Linux development and
certification around a global, uniform distribution of Linux. The
founding companies of UnitedLinux are Linux industry leaders
Conectiva S.A., The SCO Group (NASDAQ:SCOX), SuSE Linux AG, and
Turbolinux, Inc. UnitedLinux Version 1.0 is the engine that powers
products to be sold by the four companies, each with its own local
language support, value-add features, and pricing."UnitedLinux has successfully reached its first major
milestone by delivering Version 1.0 according to the schedule laid
out last spring when the group was formed," said Paula Hunter,
general manager of UnitedLinux. "The launch of UnitedLinux Version
1.0 is a tribute to the collaborative skills and technical
expertise of the four founding companies, as well as to the vision
that brought the UnitedLinux organization into being."Built on top of a solid and tested foundation, UnitedLinux
1.0 is an enterprise-focused operating system with exceptional
stability, scalability and reliability, and its high level of
quality has been previously available only in expensive proprietary
operating systems. Distributed virtually everywhere in the world
and supported by leading global ISVs and IHVs, UnitedLinux Version
1.0 will initially be available in English, Japanese, Simplified
Chinese, Korean, Portuguese, Spanish, Italian, German, French and
Hungarian. UnitedLinux Version 1.0 will have local language and
local time zone support for customers around the world, with access
to a channel of more than 16,000 resellers and a global pre- and
post-sales support team.UnitedLinux Version 1.0 incorporates a wide range of features
that enhance its usefulness for enterprise environments. Some
highlights are:

• Standards compliance: UnitedLinux supports key
  community standards, such as LSB 1.2 and OpenI18N from the Free
  Standards group. Adhering to these standards allows broader
  hardware and software vendor support as well as adoption by large
  enterprises with heterogeneous IT shops. UnitedLinux Version 1.0
  has met the stringent requirements of LSB certification.
• Scalability: Enterprise server configurations
  continue to grow, with larger, more powerful multi-processors
  handling more users, tasks and threads. Enhancements contained in
  UnitedLinux Version 1.0 improve Linux's ability to take advantage
  of larger and more complex systems and thus handle new categories
  of applications. Specifics include:

• Complete set of software and tools to build server
  farms, where workloads would otherwise be unmanageable for a single
  machine
• Scheduler enhancements to improve process
  scheduling on multiprocessor systems to avoid the scheduler
  becoming a bottleneck
• Asynchronous Input/Output, to minimize waiting on
  I/O in large, busy systems

Being developed to unify rather than to fragment Linux
offerings, UnitedLinux allows Linux vendors, ISVs, IHVs and OEMs to
support a single, high value Linux offering, instead of many
different versions. This focuses more resources on the advancement
of Linux, thus creating a much higher quality, more functional
product than could be developed otherwise.Additional product details are contained in a UnitedLinux
white paper at
www.unitedlinux.com.
Products powered by UnitedLinux are being offered by the four
founding companies: details are available on request from Conectiva
S. A., www.unitedlinux@conectiva.com, The
SCO Group www.unitedlinux@sco.com, SuSE
Linux AG - unitedlinux@suse.com; Turbolinux,
Inc., unitedlinux@turbolinux.com.

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