Start-up Beats IBM For Linux Software
News Sistina Software's LVM 2.0 will be included in the coming 2.6 version of the Linux kernel, while IBM's programmers working on competing software have refocused their work on volume management administration tools.
[January 6, 2003, 8:48]
Open-source Approach Fades In Tough Times
News An open-source group has also split off Sistina's file system software into a project that will go its separate way. Take the case of Sistina, which developed a file system that multiple computers can share, making it easier to harness their...
[November 20, 2001, 13:03]
Red Hat's Results Rocket To All-time Highs
News Red Hat's quarterly profit and revenue have hit all-time highs, the Linux seller said on Thursday, as it announced an agreement to acquire storage specialist Sistina Software for about $31m (£17.5m) in stock.
[December 19, 2003, 7:35]
Penguins Pick Up Certification
News Linux is "not nearly as fragmented as Unix became in the 1980s, but there are significant differences which impact developers," said Nick Christenson, senior analyst at Minneapolis-based file storage software maker Sistina Software.
[August 19, 2002, 8:00]
Red Hat's Bonds Raise $600m
News Red Hat acquired one such company, storage management software maker Sistina Software, in December. Novell brings to SuSE cash, server software products, a stronger US presence and existing customer relationships.
[January 13, 2004, 9:35]
Red Hat Exec Resigns Just Before Results
News In December, the company acquired Sistina Software. At the same time, there are certainly a number of executive positions opening up through the industry, particularly the software industry, so Thompson could certainly be looking to jump to a...
[June 15, 2004, 10:45]
Linux Clusters Scale Better And Cost Less
News Financial institutions are also using Linux clusters as small as eight nodes to run complex portfolio simulations and risk analysis, according to hardware and software vendors that include Dell and Sistina (a provider of file system and volume...
[November 4, 2002, 11:43]
Red Hat Tips Communal Storage
News The product came via Sistina Software, which Red Hat acquired earlier this year. GFS had been open-source software for much of its history, but Sistina made it proprietary in 2001 as part of an attempt to boost its financial fortunes, after selling...
[June 25, 2004, 14:45]
Red Hat Buys Netscape's Server Software
News Szulik said he believes Red Hat will be able to build a community, as it has with the previously proprietary Sistina file system software it acquired earlier this year. In a move to add more open-source arrows to its quiver, Linux seller Red Hat...
[September 30, 2004, 8:50]
