Linux Infrastructure: Reliable, Robust, Secure
Tags: Linux | OpenSource | Technical
Linux is becoming more accepted in the mainstream these days.
IBM, Dell, Intel and HP have become strong Linux supporters. The Linux Foundation emerged in 2007 to help support Linux in the marketing and legal arenas. The landscape is changing and people and companies need to be aware that they have options that are reliable and well supported as they evaluate their technology options for the future.
HP recently made announcements supporting our favorite Linux distribution for their Proliant and BladeSystem servers. After thorough tests IBM concluded that The Linux system is reliable and stable over long durations and can provide a robust, enterprise-level environment.
Triangulus has used Samba to set up networked environments with windows, mac and linux boxes all sharing files and printers happily. There are often claims of problems communicating between operating systems, but Samba helps things dance happily together. With Apple being Linux/Unix under the hood in the new OS X operating system, Apples and Penguins can play together more easily than ever.
We are also familiar with Apache, php, MySQL and the power of the LAMP stack and enjoy using Perl to migrate data from old to new formats and databases.
