LinuxCare Resurfaces as Linux Device Vendor 83
An anonymous reader submits "LinuxCare, famous employer of Rasmus, Tridge, and others during the go-go-90's Linux start-up days, has resurfaced as a Linux device vendor. The company, now known as Levanta, is shipping its first hardware product, which it says is the 'world's first Linux management appliance.' At nearly $8K, it's pretty expensive, but the Integra M does appear to bring some of the cool sysadmin features long available on the Windows side over to Linux IT types."
The automation of system administration (Score:4, Interesting)
But you'd never know it by skimming their site. Like many tech wizards, they get bogged down with technical details and fail to clearly present their product in a coherent manner.
For all the slick web designing that went into their site, someone could have had the decency to tell them to "dumb it down" for the CIOs out there who haven't got the time to dig into their literature.
After reading the site, I'm still not clear on what the name of the administrative tool is, nor the limitations as to the number of nodes I can attach to the admin machine.
There are some very keen concepts that seem to mimic the concept of a system emulator, where the administrator can deploy experimentally and see the results of those deployments without causing system-wide disaster.
I just wish it were better presented.
Why sell a device? (Score:3, Interesting)
Seems like lots of engineering time for something that is basically commodity hardware these days when the focus is the software to begin with.
Patent application from 2004 (Score:1, Interesting)
http://appft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?TERM1=
At least three of the four inventors no longer work for Levanta / Linuxcare.