30 Aug 2000
IBM is shifting focus to open source by Linux-enabling anything it does, according to its vice-president of technology and strategy, Irving Wladawsky Berger.
Speaking at the Las Vegas developers' conference, Wladawsky Berger said IBM will ship Linux clusters with Netfinity servers, Linux-loaded Thinkpads and Turbo Linux for thin clients. He said IT managers are likely to move to Linux because it offers flexibility like no other operating system (OS).
John Patrick, IBM vice president of internet technology, said that Linux is the latest of three major shifts he has seen in the history of IBM.
The two before Linux were over to PCs in 1989 and to TCP/IP in 1991. They, too, were dismissed by the industry at first.
He said that Linux might become the next generally accepted OS.
"So many large companies have started to support Linux that it may overtake Windows. Especially now that we have developed Journal File System for Linux, which is similar to Unix. This means that you can reboot after a crash without losing recent data."
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