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	Agencies and integrators with significant investment and expertise in Unix can experiment with Linux while protecting their Unix base by using servers built on IBM Corp.'s Power 4 family of processors. The Power4 line runs IBM's eServer pSeries, which are high-performance Unix servers.

Agencies and integrators with significant investment and expertise in Unix can experiment with Linux while protecting their Unix base by using servers built on IBM Corp.'s Power 4 family of processors. The Power4 line runs IBM's eServer pSeries, which are high-performance Unix servers.

Last month, IBM introduced Linux support in its pSeries servers. Using IBM's logical partitioning technology, IT groups can run Linux and Unix concurrently. The Power4 is a 64-bit server processor designed with two separate, symmetrical, multiprocessing chips in a single design.

IBM is making a push to get Linux into government agencies, having received EAL 3 security certification for its servers running Novell Inc.'s Suse Linux.

 

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