[LUNI] Dan Frye and the Linux Technology Center

[James Bliss]

IBM has a marketing agreement with SuSE Linux for their products in 
Europe which run on Linux.  Also, IBM has been working very closely with 
SuSE and SuSE has had their flavor of linux running on the IBM mainframe 
for a while here.  And IBM has certified their Linux for the mainframe.

Jim

03/06/02 02:59:41 PM, Martin Maney <maney at pobox.com> wrote:

>
>IBM and Linux.  It's a combination that still seems improbable, but it's
>unquestionably here.  Dan Frye has been involved in IBM's Liux strategy
>since before IBM had a Linux strategy; currently he's the Director of the
>LTC.  Here he's interviewed by Consulting Times.
>
>    Our basic mission is to help make Linux better -- not
>    make Linux better for IBM products, just make Linux
>    better, period. So we have about 250 people in eight
>    countries -- 25 cities -- around the world who work all
>    in open source, as peers in the community. They're
>    working on 50-60 different projects -- all aimed at
>    making Linux better -- and most aimed at making Linux
>    better for the enterprise in particular.
>
>    http://www.consultingtimes.com/articles/ibm/frye/fryeinterview.html
>
>-- 
>automation: replacing what works with something that almost works,
>but which is faster and cheaper.  - attributed to Roger Needham
>
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