COSTA MESA, Calif. (company press release) — QLogic Corp., the market share leader in Fibre Channel host bus adapters, and an innovator in SCSI connectivity solutions, today announced full, optimized support for the Linux operating system on its QLA2100 and QLA2200 series Fibre Channel host bus adapters as well as its Ultra3 and Ultra2 SCSI host bus adapters.

“By working closely with our Linux customers to determine their needs, we've designed drivers to optimize performance in this popular environment. These powerful Linux drivers are included standard in all QLogic QLA2100, QLA2200, Ultra3 and Ultra2 series host bus adapters,” said Mark Edwards, vice president and general manager of QLogic's Computer Systems Group. “As Linux continues to gain tremendous momentum, we've kept pace with that growth by delivering the broadest Linux support of any host bus adapter provider in the market.”

Some analysts such as IDC say growth in commercial shipments of the Linux operating system will outpace other client or server operating environments through 2003. According to the IDC bulletin, “Linux Operating System Market Overview,” Linux commercial shipments will grow at a compound annual rate of 25 percent from 1999 through 2003, compared to 10 percent for all other client operating environments and 12 percent for all other server operating environments combined.

“We work with an entire range of QLogic products on a daily basis in our Linux systems lab,” said Matt O'Keefe, Associate Professor, University of Minnesota. “What impresses us is the consistency of price/performance and the interoperability we see in the QLogic design. It's obvious that QLogic has put a great deal of time and effort into engineering superior products for the Linux operating system. In addition, unlike other adapter card vendors, QLogic has released its drivers under an open-source license and fully supported the Linux community in developing drivers for their Fibre Channel cards.”

QLogic is the market share leader in Fibre Channel host bus adapters, according to Dataquest, a Gartner Group Company. Also an innovator in SCSI connectivity solutions and enclosure management products, QLogic was recently added to the Nasdaq 100 Index.

 
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