May, 2002 : IBM Announces Support for Uniform Linux Version
📅 - Technology giant IBM (IBM.com) announced on Thursday that it would support the new uniform version of Linux, known as UnitedLinux, across its portfolio of hardware, software and service offerings.
According to IBM, UnitedLinux was created by four of the leading distributors of the software, Caldera, Conectiva, SuSE and TurboLinux, in an effort to unify the various distributions of the open source operating system.
By creating a unified version of the open source platform, says IBM, UnitedLinux will make it easier for businesses, independent hardware and software vendors and business partners to standardize operations on fewer versions of Linux, instead of porting e-business applications to a variety of Linux distributions, which can be time-consuming and costly.
IBM says it will continue to support Red Hat Linux across its key hardware, software and service offerings.
"IBM fully supports this new UnitedLinux, which will make it easier than ever before to create a wide variety of Linux-based solutions for any size e-business," says Steve Mills, senior vice president and group executive, IBM Software Group. "UnitedLinux brings together the best technologies and capabilities of these four companies, delivering a single international Linux distribution that will make it simpler for solution providers to utilize and customers to deploy. Our support for UnitedLinux spans our entire Linux software, hardware, and services portfolio - already the broadest in the industry - giving our customers and business partners what they need to move more business workloads onto Linux."
According to IBM, UnitedLinux was created by four of the leading distributors of the software, Caldera, Conectiva, SuSE and TurboLinux, in an effort to unify the various distributions of the open source operating system.
By creating a unified version of the open source platform, says IBM, UnitedLinux will make it easier for businesses, independent hardware and software vendors and business partners to standardize operations on fewer versions of Linux, instead of porting e-business applications to a variety of Linux distributions, which can be time-consuming and costly.
IBM says it will continue to support Red Hat Linux across its key hardware, software and service offerings.
"IBM fully supports this new UnitedLinux, which will make it easier than ever before to create a wide variety of Linux-based solutions for any size e-business," says Steve Mills, senior vice president and group executive, IBM Software Group. "UnitedLinux brings together the best technologies and capabilities of these four companies, delivering a single international Linux distribution that will make it simpler for solution providers to utilize and customers to deploy. Our support for UnitedLinux spans our entire Linux software, hardware, and services portfolio - already the broadest in the industry - giving our customers and business partners what they need to move more business workloads onto Linux."
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