Stratus rolls out fault-tolerant 64-bit Linux

In a word - sweet. Stratus Technologies is taking the no prisoners approach with regard to the server market and I suspect will kick some serious butt with their 64-bit server Linux for the enterprise.

Stratus Technologies has launched its first 64-bit version of Linux across six different server models, as the open source operating system continues to progress in the enterprise market.

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS 4, the 64-bit implementation uses Intel Extended Memory 64 technology, and can run in both 32- and 64-bit modes.

Stratus, which sells fault-tolerant servers to enterprises, first announced support for Red Hat Linux in October of last year. Since then, the company has been building up its standards-based offerings, and in January announced its first fault-tolerant systems supporting Intel dual-core processors.

Stratus is hoping that offering Linux, coupled with “five nines” reliability — guaranteed 99.999 percent uptime, which is required by telecoms operators and very large businesses, especially financial firms — will help it capture the demand for increasing reliability in systems…. Source: ZDNet