http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/2007/03/16/stories/2007031603980400.htm

New Linux version supports 10 Indian languages

Anand Parthasarathy

`Enterprise' Release 5 touts virtualisation, cost reductions

SIMPLY SCALE UP: Mr Grey Messer (right), President, Red Hat Asia
Pacific, and Mr Nandu Pradhan, President and MD of the company's India
operations, at a press conference in Singapore on Thursday.

Singapore March 15

`Scale up, scale out and kick out the complexity' — This was the pitch
of the market leader in corporate Open Source distributions, Red Hat,
as it unveiled the latest Enterprise Linux version 5 at simultaneous
launch events here and half a dozen other centres worldwide on
Thursday.

To achieve this, the company for the first time has harnessed a number
of virtualisation features which will allow system managers to run
heterogeneous operating systems — even `mix-n-match' older 32-bit
applications with current 64-bit tools in the same server and storage
space.

"You will see a dramatic reduction in the cost of acquisition and
operation," promised Mr Scott Crenshaw, Red Hat's US-based
Vice-President for Enterprise Linux Platform Business. "The savings
could range from tens of thousands of dollars to $100,000 per server."

New features in the fifth iteration of Red Hat's Linux flavour centre
around beefed-up data centre and database offerings, as well as
enhanced tools for high performance computing — the burgeoning
application in number-crunching mammoths for drug discovery, energy
exploration and other scientific quests.

Mr Gery Messer, Red Hat's Singapore-based Asia-Pacific/Japan
President, told Business Line that its Pune centre was now the global
engineering and customer support nerve centre of the company.
India-based engineers had contributed key features to the new Linux
release, he added.

Mr Nandu Pradhan, Red Hat India's President and Managing Director,
explained that Release 5 had doubled the Indian language support to 10
languages - a case of fortuitous timing in the light of the
government's budget-day announcement of sharply increasing monetary
support for e-governance initiatives at the Centre and the States.

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