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Red Hat, the leader in open source Internet infrastructure solutions,
announced today the availability of an early release of the Red Hat source
code for the forthcoming Intel Itanium processor platform targeting high-end
servers and workstations. This distribution enables the development of IA-64
software for the most intensive computing environments, from high
performance design automation to enterprise level databases.
A free download version of the code can be obtained at
ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/ia64.
"Red Hat's release of pre-production tools and software represents an
important milestone in the development of the IA-64 Linux platform," said
Michael Pope, Intel's Director of e-Business Solutions Marketing. "This
release will enable the open source Linux community to accelerate their
development of advanced server and workstation applications for Itanium
processor based systems.''
Intel recently announced the availability online of the Itanium Processor
Microarchitecture Reference, a guide for software developers that details
the functional behaviour of Intel's Itanium microprocessor.
This guide, together with the Red Hat code will enable developers to create
programmes that will be Red Hat/IA-64 ready before the production release of
the Itanium microprocessor.
"Commercial developers know that as the principle source of the GNU
development tools for both IA-32 and IA-64 Linux (as well as for many
proprietary operating systems), Red Hat is positioned to help developers
port and optimise their applications for IA-64 Linux," said Michael Tiemann,
CTO, Red Hat, Inc. "We believe this will be especially valuable to
developers who want to extend their Linux-based offerings into high-end,
64-bit enterprise and technical computing markets."
This pre-production version will include the Red Hat/Cygnus compiler and
tool kit. It is based on the tools and kernel developed by the Trillian
project, a group of companies that include Red Hat, Intel, Hewlett-Packard,
IBM, Caldera, CERN, SuSE, TurboLinux and SGI. The full release of Red Hat's
offering will coincide with the IA-64 hardware availability from Intel.
"We continue to work closely with Red Hat, Intel and our strategic
independent software vendors (ISVs) to speed development of 64-bit
e-commerce solutions that are optimised on Dell systems," said Bob Van
Steenberg, vice president and general manager of enterprise server products
in Dell's Enterprise Systems Group. "As a world leader in Internet commerce
and infrastructure products, Dell is on track to be among the first to
deliver to its customers Dell PowerEdge servers and Dell Precision
WorkStations based on Intel's 64-bit Itanium processors."
Open Source Momentum
International Data Corp. (IDC) research states that Linux was the
fastest-growing server operating environment in 1998, growing more than 190
percent in that year alone and capturing more than 15.8 percent of the 4.4
million revenue shipment server operating systems market segment. IDC also
states that Red Hat Linux is by far the most popular distribution, preferred
by 68.7 percent of U.S. Linux users.
Research firm Netcraft, Inc. (www.netcraft.com), states that as of April
2000 33 percent of all public Web sites run on Linux-based operating
systems, making Linux the most popular choice for deploying public Web
sites. Finally, IDC predicts that by 2002, there will be more than 55
million handheld and notebook-style information appliance devices and that
by 2005, shipments of these appliances will exceed shipments of PCs.
About Red Hat, Inc.
Founded in 1994, Red Hat is a leader in the development of Linux-based
operating system software (OS) and services. Based in Durham, N.C., Red Hat
builds the most accessible and advanced server OS available anywhere with
technical innovations such as RPM and the disk druid installation tool. Red
Hat Linux is available for Intel, Compaq Alpha and Sun SPARC platforms. Red
Hat Linux available directly from the company and through Red Hat's partner,
distributor and reseller programs, which include top PC and server
manufacturers like Dell, IBM and Hewlett-Packard.
Red Hat Europe was established in July 1999 with its European headquarters
based in Surrey, United Kingdom and offices throughout Europe. Red Hat
Linux is sold and supported through a number of major distribution and
industry partners throughout Europe.
Red Hat Linux was named InfoWorld's Product of the Year for four years in a
row, was given a productivity accolade in Software Development's Jolt
Awards, was named an environment/desktop finalist in the Ziff-Davis European
Excellence Awards, won the editor's choice awards from the Linux Journal and
Australian Personal Computing magazines, and won the 'Just Plain Cool' award
from Australian Personal Computing magazine.
At March's LinuxWorld Expo, more than 8,000 members of the Linux community
voted Red Hat a 'LinuxWorld Favorite'. Red Hat Linux recently won a Product
Excellence award from Software Development Magazine.
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Red Hat, Inc. UNIX is a registered trademark of The Open Group. All other
names and trademarks are the property of their respective owners.
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