[ale] One companies decision on Redhat

[James P. Kinney III]

It's nice to see Bruker on an upgrade cycle. The setup I used was DOS
based. 

On another note: there is an app I saw (freshmeat) that you might find
useful for chem lab previews called genchemlab. 

http://www.prism.gatech.edu/~gte067k/genchemlab/

On Thu, 2003-11-20 at 17:10, Dow Hurst wrote:
> I thought that the blurb I received would be interesting for those watching the response to RedHat's announcement about ending the RHseries and going to the Enterprise edition as their product.  This company makes Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectrometers and is based out of Germany.  They used to just ship SGI workstations with their NMRs but then switched for a very short time to NT.  Now they ship Linux as an option.  Theis excerpt is out of their newsletter.
> Dow
> 
> 
> 
> BEGIN##########################
> Red Hat informs on its website
> 
>    www.redhat.com/apps/support/errata/
> 
> about life cycles and support of its products. In principle, the
> maintenance of these operating systems that are currently supported by
> Bruker BioSpin will be stopped by Red Hat at the end of December 2003.
> Because of this, and for future maintenance, Bruker BioSpin has decided
> to switch to the Red Hat Enterprise WS 3.0 edition
> (www.redhat.com/software/rhel/ws/). This version is currently being
> tested by Bruker BioSpin on our new PC generation, the HPxw4100 system.
> If all tests are successful, then we will officially start to support
> this operating system within the next 4-6 weeks on newly delivered
> workstations. The configuration of the HPxw4100 PC is as follows:
> 
> - 2.4 to 2.8 GHz Pentium 4
> - 80 GB EIDE ATA/100 7200 Harddisk
> - 512 MB (2x 256 MB) PC3200 DDR400
> - Floppy Disk Drive
> - 48x CD RW Drive
> - NVIDIA Quadro4 380XGL
> - HP Optical ScrollMouse USB
> - EASY ACCESS Keybaord US/ENGL.
> - Second Network Card: NetExtreme 10/100/1000 (Broadcom chipset)
> 
> All other (older) hardware combinations may also work but will not be
> tested by Bruker BioSpin.
> END############################
-- 
James P. Kinney III          \Changing the mobile computing world/
CEO & Director of Engineering \          one Linux user         /
Local Net Solutions,LLC        \           at a time.          /
770-493-8244                    \.___________________________./
http://www.localnetsolutions.com

GPG ID: 829C6CA7 James P. Kinney III (M.S. Physics)
<jkinney at localnetsolutions.com>
Fingerprint = 3C9E 6366 54FC A3FE BA4D 0659 6190 ADC3 829C 6CA7
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: not available
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 189 bytes
Desc: This is a digitally signed message part