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IBM invests US$200M in Linux development in Asia-Pacific

By Gavin Sherry , LinuxWorld.com.au Sydney

IBM today announced that it will be investing more than US$200 million in the Asia-Pacific region over the next four years. The investment will see Linux-focused centres opened throughout the region, Linux-savvy service personnel deployed, and an increased focus on the operating system as a business platform.

The US$200 million investment will see the creation of Linux Development Centres and Linux Competency Centres across the region.

The seven Asia-Pacific Linux Development Centres will be located in Sydney, Tokyo, Shanghai, Beijing, Taipei, Seoul and Bangalore. These centres will act as developer resource and information points. They will provide access to all IBM hardware server platforms (NetFinity, AS/400, RS/6000 and S/390), as well as access to IBM middleware products (including DB2 Universal database, WebSphere and Lotus Domino). This access will include assistance from IBM software and server specialists.

The centres will be open to all software vendors, whether they be start-ups working on a new innovative use of Linux, or leading enterprise level application developers who want to port their existing products to the Linux platform. The Asia-Pacific centres will be complimented by the existing DeveloperWorks Japanese version Web site, as well as the Chinese version of the Web site which will appear late this year.

The Linux Development Centres will be joined by Linux Competancy Centres to be established in the Northern Asia-Pacific. Centres will be founded in Yamato, Beijing, Seoul and Bangalore, joining existing research labs in the region. The centres will allow IBM to focus on working with the Linux community to develop open standards such as Motif Globalisation, GNU Text tools Unicode support, and Li8nux, a project for the internationalisation of Linux which the Asia Pacific Linux Competency Centre is chairing.

Over the last year IBM has contributed significant support to the Linux and Open Source community by opening applications, porting Linux and Linux applications to its hardware platforms, providing developer resources through its DeveloperWorks Web site, and investing US$200 million into Linux development initiatives in Europe.

"The Asia Pacific region will see growth in the Linux area as our customers, business partners and government organizations recognize the growing importance of Linux as a key e-business operating system," said Kakutaro Kitashiro, president of IBM Asia Pacific. "There is tremendous interest today in Linux as the platform of choice for e-business because it provides an affordable solution that can be tailored to meet regional and customer demands."

IBM will be rapidly deploying 300 specialist Linux consultants, hardware and software specialists, researchers, product developers and services professionals into the Asia-Pacific region to kick-start this far reaching support of Linux.

Selling Linux hardware

"IBM will aggressively promote Linux applications that will run on our already Linux-enabled servers to help our customers take full advantage of the benefits Linux provides," said Kitashiro.

The company will also be extending its alliances with Linux-focused business partners such as TurboLinux and Intel. TurboLinux is now shipping a Linux based data server using IBM's DB2 Universal database. "Looking forward," said Ted Liu, Vice President Marketing, Alliance & Business Development, TurboLinux. "TurboLinux will work with IBM to continue the development of the Linux market."

IBM's enthusiastic focus on the open source operating system is joined by the company using the operating system's revolutionary software development model for some of its own projects in recent times. IBM has encouraged input and development from the Linux community on projects such as the Jikes compiler, the JFS Journaling Filesystem plus and the porting of Linux to the RS/6000 and S/390 hardware plaftorms.

While these moves from IBM do not guarantee the future of enterprise Linux, the emphasis being placed on the operating system by the company is a major boost. Critically, the support will allow Linux development to proceed at an even more rapid pace and place the Asia Pacific in a strong position to lead the deployment of the operating system.

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