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Marking ten years of support for Linux, IBM (News - Alert) introduced a series of new products, services and initiatives that further expand its commitment to open source.

 

Next-generation Linux has a role to play in green information technology (IT), in business-critical workloads, for midmarket customers, and as a desktop client of the future.

 

“IBM has been a major supporter of Linux and open source for ten years, helping to drive the adoption of Linux by millions of users, across tens of thousands of devices and applications,” said Inna Kuznetsova, director of Linux at IBM, in a statement.  

 

Kuznetsova added that the company is looking forward to the next ten years, as Linux

continues to increasingly drive business-critical workloads for all sizes of organizations, while empowering the new enterprise data center through virtualization, real-time Linux, cloud computing and other advances, including liberating the desktop.

 

IBM’s announcements include the first contribution of open-source software for supercomputers based on Linux; a new independent software vendor (ISV) appliance toolkit that will expand the reach of Linux into the midmarket; pre-loading of Novell (News - Alert) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 in Lotus Foundations, a hardware and software bundle geared for businesses from five employees on up; an expansion of its real-time Linux initiative; the introduction of a new version of z/VM with a dynamic memory upgrade feature available for Linux users; a planned initiative with Canonical/Ubuntu (News - Alert), Novell and Red Hat around Lotus Notes and Lotus Symphony; and more.