The other day someone said that I needed more catchy titles to my postings – well Bill, I guess this one got your attention :-).
Back in 2004, Revelation released ‘OpenInsight for Linux’. Initially supporting RedHat and Debian distributions, this was extended to support other emerging Linux distributions such as SUSE. However, for lots of reasons take-up of OIL was slow and following news earlier this year that some major Linux players were shelving plans to distribute a traditional desktop Linux product into the consumer PC market, OIL has finally been withdrawn (1st December 2008) from the Revelation product line.
Linux is still very much around though and continues to be an option for servers. For this reason, Revelation continue to support OpenInsight for Windows installed on many Linux servers. OpenInsight developers can simply take their Windows compiled applications and install them on Linux servers with Windows desktops, connecting them using a SAMBA share and the Universal Driver.
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