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Stratus Joins Open Source Development Labs

The Open Source Development Labs (OSDL), a global consortium dedicated to accelerating the adoption of Linux in the enterprise, announced that Stratus Technologies Inc, a provider of fault-tolerant computer servers, technologies and services, has joined OSDL and will participate in the Lab's Carrier Grade Linux and Data Center Linux working groups.

Stratus is a privately held manufacturer of servers that are designed to provide continuous availability of five nines (99.999 percent) uptime or greater. Customers relying on Stratus servers for continuous uptime include 15 of the 20 largest banks in the world, emergency 9-1-1 service providers, the busiest transit system in the United States and the largest stock exchange in Asia.

"Stratus relies on a Linux operating system that runs on our fault-tolerant products designed for the continuous uptime requirements of telecommunications central offices," said Ali Kafel, Stratus vice president of telecommunications sales. "We're looking forward to joining OSDL's Carrier Grade Linux and Data Center Linux working groups to combine our Linux development expertise with other OSDL members."

"We're pleased to see Stratus bring their experience with fault-tolerant Linux to OSDL," said Stuart Cohen, CEO of OSDL. "Linux is being used in the core of the data center handling mission-critical loads and the addition of Stratus as our newest member is the latest demonstration of industry support for the work of our Carrier Grade Linux and Data Center Linux working groups."