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TurboLinux Gets $50M Capital

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the whole-lotta-dough dept.

An anonymous reader pointed us to a CNet article that talks about Turbo Linux getting $50M in capital from a variety of investors including Dell, Compaq and others. Also talks about Caldera and Linuxcare and the whole Linux Market right now.

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  1. Re:Proprietary? by TurboJustin · · Score: 4

    To be a little more specific - the *only* proprietary part of our Clustering software is a little daemon that runs on the routers/load balancers. You can have as many cluster members as you'd like that aren't running TurboCluster (TurboLinux Server, another distro, even another OS). If I'm not mistaken, we sell a 2-node license and an unlimited node license - many people need only two load balancers, others need more. The admin tools are open-source, the kernel modifications are open-source, etc..

    I just wanted to post this before there is some confusion about it - because there always is. We keep a small portion closed simply so that we have *something* that is ours. We do, however, provide the source to an older version of TurboCluster - completely.

    Justin Ryan (TurboLinux)