It is predicted that the customer base installed in the next 4 years will dominate with Windows at the same time in the client-run (COE) and server-run (SOE) environment. IBM's huge commercial profit from this high-speed market and this open platform can naturally be ignored.
Previously, since IBM servers have been architectural standards in UNIX, most solutions and software products are also unix as core, IBM's Linux strategy has been questioned by the industry. At this Linux World Conference, IBM is actual The initiative expression is confident in Linux.
During the meeting, IBM announced that new customers and ISVs were running Linux on a POWER processor-based system. Previously, as a UNIX server IBM EServer P series of IBM ace product lines, the policy of applying Linux on Power architecture has begun. Currently, IBM ESERVER P series and i series can have run SUSE and Red Hat's Linux operating system on IBM's Power-based system architecture.
Brian Connors, vice president of IBM Linux on Power, said, "IBM is committed to providing customers with standard-based number-based technologies, and by transplanting Linux applications onto the Power platform, ISV will be able to get two different customer bases, and I series and The P-Series system customers also have more choices. "
IBM also announced a donation of more than 500,000 rows of relational database code (codenamed Derby) to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) as an actual support for open source organization and partners. It is alleged that this is only one of more than 150 projects that IBM donated to open source organization, and IBM has plans to obtain more than $ 500 million in benefits by selling this software.
IBM said that Derby is a set of Java-based relational databases with 2MB capacity that is fully embedded without managing support. Developers can easily build and deploy applications and workloads, and deploy applications and workloads without enterprise-class database systems. IBM's goal is that Derby occupies 30% of the business database solutions.
"This is the major initiative to promote open operations, and then provide new choices for developers and customers based on Java-based embedded database feature, I hope to push Linux's commercialization process," IBM China Software Development Zheng Miaoqin, general manager of the Center, said: "Linux also only has a greater development after really realizing commercialization."
IBM also announced that Derby software has received 12 corporate partners and support for Linux distributors such as Red Hat, Novell / SUSE, TurboLinux and Red Flag. Once Derby gets the formal approval of ASF, IBM plans to develop IBM Cloudscape products as the same technology as the development of Apache code, and conduct commercial operations to open up the market.
IBM Linux Global Market Director andrea Cotter clearly said: "We strongly support business software, because this is the core of IBM software department business. Our business is based on the value of customers."
From:
Sina
