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A rchive Date
[ 20-02-2004 ]
Category
[ Information Technologies ]
sub-Categoy
[ IBM ]
      [Big Blue backs Linux

      SAN DIEGO - IBM Monday reaffirmed its commitment to Linux, particularly in the area of clustered servers, here at the third annual SP World 2000 conference.

       Although Big Blue has no intention of abandoning AIX, its Unix platform, David Gelardi, the director of benchmarking and solution initiatives for the RS/600 brand server group, said that "all Linux decisions [from IBM] appear to be based on a when, not an if, scenario."

       Because of the vigor of the Linux community, Gelardi said IBM is aggressively contributing to the development of the open-source code. In the short term, Gelardi said IBM is installing binary interfaces to allow Linux to run on AIX and Project Monterey, which is IBM's 64-bit architecture. IBM also will boost development of more advanced server replication technology on the Linux OS, as "Linux runs very well on clustered servers," Gelardi said.

      And Gelardi said the Linux cluster market is growing rapidly thanks to adoption from government and higher education and to pure scientific research. Linux clusters running petroleum, seismic, and aerospace calculations are the next wave of adoption, according to Gelardi.

       When asked whether or not IBM has considered offering up AIX to an open-source code program, Gelardi replied, "I'm not sure what [the IT community] would get from it. There's no question that we are taking AIX technology and putting it into the Linux community. I think [IBM] is just more comfortable with not open-sourcing AIX. A few customers have asked, but I don't think it comes down to that."

       "Let's help Linux, as it makes more sense," Gelardi said. 
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      New document Icon IBM Corp., in Armonk, NY., is at www.ibm.com. Dan Neel is an InfoWorld reporter.


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