Hewlett Packard has begun to sell Intel Itanium 2-based workstations running Red Hat Linux Advanced Workstation. Advanced Workstation is the desktop companion to Red Hat’s Enterprise-oriented Advanced Server. HP also sells versions of these workstations running HP-UX, and will probably sell Windows versions eventually, following a future OS release my Microsoft. This is yet more evidence that Red Hat sees some opportunity for Linux on the corporate desktop, at least in the engineering workstation area, where high-priced Unix workstations have traditionally ruled but have been pushed out by NT/2000-on-Intel in recent years. Read more about it at Silicon.com.
These look neat, where can I get one!
I knew Red Hat was a major Linux player, but with this announcement and the one about IBM yesterday, it seems they are becoming a major force in the industry, not just a cheap alternative.
Ever hear of one?
When is the next beta coming out? Or have we had the last one?
I’d like to see some comparisons on office productivity and/or graphics-intensive benchmarks against leading PIV or Athlon PCs.
From what I have heard, the code is pretty much stablised, and the next several weeks/months will be on stablising the applications, integrating them better etc etc the usual bells and whistles stuff. I’d much rather Redhat take until November/December and get it right, rather than rushing it out and have a huge update/download later down the track.
Hm, Intel and HP are trying REALLY hard to make the Itanic2 fly. Let us see if Itanic2 takes off now.