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[Bruce Smith <bruce@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

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** Linux Gets A Boost

Now that a penguin would feel at home in many parts of the nation,
it's about time the operating system that uses it on its logo grew up
enough to keep a company up and running through any disaster. While
freeware Linux takes the workgroup market by storm, some of its
strongest proponents are waiting for code and products to make it a
real data center system.

Veritas Software Corp. will do its part at the end of the month. The
software vendor will protect Linux-based data with backup and recovery
capabilities that are already protecting data from AIX, HP-UX,
Solaris, and Windows 2000. Veritas NetBackup DataCenter and Veritas
NetBackup BusinessServer will protect Red Hat Linux data starting next
month.

The DataCenter version of NetBackup will automatically help back up
terabytes of data as fast as the hardware architecture-including
servers, tape libraries, and networks - can move it. Then it helps
administrators recover the data easily. Pricing for the Linux version
starts at $5,000. The BusinessServer version is designed for smaller
installations, and pricing starts at $1,995.

Illuminata analyst John Webster says the NetBackup support for Linux
will let users do the kinds of things around data availability and
recovery that they're used to doing on AIX, HP-UX, and Solaris. "It's
a signal that Linux has arrived," says Webster. "It's more significant
for Linux than it is for Veritas and other [independent software
vendors] supporting the OS." - Martin J. Garvey

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