IBM puts billion again in Linux and open source for our own "power" server.

This was announced by the Group on the LinuxCon, Linux Foundation in New Orleans. With the dollar billion to According to an announcement will be financed in the cloud for Linux on Power, among others, a new customer center in Europe as well as a development environment.

The Power Systems Linux center in Montpellier, France, is to make it easier for software developers in the future, new applications for big data , cloud, mobile and social business to develop open technology components with Linux and Power7 processors and provide. The first such center opened IBM in May in Beijing, there are already more in New York City and Austin, Texas.

The Linux on Power Development Cloud is a development environment for the Power Systems cloud. About the free cloud service companies to Linux applications (but which for AIX or System i) build on the Power platform, porting and testing.

Overall, the billions invested in research, design and development should flow and help to support training, information sessions and go-to-market programs for customers, developers, business partners, entrepreneurs, academics and students financially. Goes on to say.


"Many companies are struggling with problems if they manage Big Data and cloud computing applications in server environments for the mass market, the old on the technology decades of PC-based era," said IBM manager Brad McCredie on the LinuxCon. This server came quickly reach their limit, which leads to that more would buy it. This leads to a blind, little sustainable IT environment. The era of large amounts of data requires instead an open and adaptable approach to IT systems.

IBM had recently announced to license the designs of our own microprocessor architecture to third parties as part of Open Power Consortium.

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