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Egenera has produced a liquid-cooled server to deal with its high-end data center computers.

Although having an open source strategy is becoming common in many enterprises, users and analysts say 2006 is the year the penguin flippers will hit the water in terms of Linux's evolution into an enterprise-application server platform. Linux usage started with lower-level admins, deployed on individual desktops or small boxes. Then it moved into e-mail, file-and-print and serving Web pages. Now those who use Linux say the time is right for the operating system to be running key corporate-software packages, including large databases, financials, sales, medical records and a host of other business-critical systems.

Sun Microsystems expects to release the first update to its Solaris 10 operating system next month, according to the company's software head. Sun recently announced plans to add a new file system, the 128-bit Zetabyte File System or ZFS, to Solaris 10 as well as the ability for users to run applications designed for other operating systems on top of Solaris via segmented containers.

Egenera announced its BladeFrame x86 blade servers now support Sun Microsystems's Solaris 10 operating system. The company made the move in response to customer requests, according to a Thursday press release.

European computer manufacturer Fujitsu Siemens Computers has forged an alliance with Egenera to become the sole provider of the U.S. company's blade servers in Europe, the Middle East and Africa, the companies announced Wednesday.

One question I'm asked fairly often is: what's the next killer app? The concept of the killer app has a powerful hold on our collective psychology. We want to believe that the entire market can be propelled forward by the next must-have technology that spawns a new generation of industry leaders and reshapes our lives. The spreadsheet, LANs, mobile phones, e-mail, the Web and so on. Absent the next killer app, the market stagnates.

If the thought of backing up e-mail evokes feelings of dread, spare a thought for Australia's librarians who are racing against the clock to digitize millions of decaying photographic images before nature has its cruel way.

Novell Tuesday at LinuxWorld announced a slew of Linux offerings that are expected to bolster its status in the open source community.

Several Linux hardware and software makers launched wares on the opening day of the LinuxWorld Expo in New York. The vendors' goal: make Linux faster, stronger, better, for large enterprise application deployments.

The server market has traditionally focused on bigger and faster machines, the Big Iron that runs large corporate networks and databases. But a number of companies, including Sun Microsystems Inc., are changing the way applications are deployed by networking many small, thin computers known as blade servers and by pooling their processing power.

RLX Technologies Monday released a new version of its server blade management software and announced that it will begin offering several software packages to help customers create large clusters of servers.