KM Magazine: Knowledge Management on Linux Sep 3, 2000, 20 :00 UTC (1 Talkback[s]) (6131 reads) (Other stories by Joe Mullich)
"During its annual symposium on IT trends last October, the Gartner Group
identified as two important post-Y2K issues for IT directors: knowledge
management and the emergence of the Linux operating system. Almost a
year later, the two trends are about to intersect. Red Hat Inc. of Durham, N.C.,
the leading vendor of Linux products and services, plans to make two KM
applications available on its version of the open-source operating system.
The products come from established KM vendors SAS Institute of Cary, N.C.,
and Hummingbird Ltd. of Ontario, Canada."
"SAS will release a Linux version of its SAS System 8 platform later this year.
Among the SAS applications that will be available for use on Linux are IT
ServiceVision (for capacity planning and performance monitoring), CFO
Vision (for financial reporting and analysis) and CRM Solution (for creating
data warehouses and performing data mining). Hummingbird will include its
Enterprise Information Portal (EIP) core engine with a Linux distribution from
Red Hat and SuSe Inc. Several other KM vendors also intend to port their
applications to Linux by the end of the year."
"Despite evangelism by its proponents, Linux so far has attracted only a
handful of applications. "Linux is crawling into the knowledge management
space in blips," says Matthew Doering, senior vice president of technology
for QueryObject Systems of Roslyn Heights, N.Y., a vendor of software for
Internet-enabling desktop business intelligence applications. "Knowledge
management is facilitated by the Web infrastructure, which is a strength of
Linux."
