March 17, 2000

Michigan and Sun Microsystems Attack Key Barrier to Linux Use

By FLORENCE OLSEN

Sun Microsystems is giving the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor a six-figure research grant to overcome what many computing officials consider a major obstacle to bringing the Linux operating system into universitywide computer networks -- its lack of a secure and robust network file system.

If Michigan is successful in fixing that deficiency in the operating system, university administrators may soon be able to consider Linux as a low-cost alternative to

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