Dec 19, 2001 : IBM Initiative Pushes Linux For SMBs

📅 December 19, 2001 - IBM (ibm.com) announced yesterday an initiative toaccelerate the adoption of Linux among small and medium business, byintroducing the Linux Test Drive for eServer iSeries. The iSeries makesavailable over the Internet a "virtual Linux server" to help independentsoftware vendors and the open source community write and port theirapplications to Linux on iSeries.

The eServer iSeries uses advanced "partitioning" technology that allows asingle physical server to be divided into dozens of virtual servers that canbe accessed remotely by software developers around the world.
IBM believes the combination of Linux, the quickly-growing server operatingsystem, and IBM eServer iSeries can help small business consolidate dozensof standalone servers on a single mainframe-class server, reducing cost andcomplexity. To date, more than 200,000 customers around the world, many ofthem mid-sized companies, run their businesses on IBM eServer iSeries.
According to IDC, small businesses represent 48 percent of all Linux serverinstallations. Industry analysts also estimate that small and medium sizebusiness (up to 1,000 employees) will represent more than 50 percent of thetotal server market worldwide by 2004.
Software providers can get more information and enroll at the Linux TestDrive site at ibm.com/eserver/iseries/ developer/factory/testdrive.Participants can select from SuSE or Turbolinux distributions of Linux, andcan choose between 14-day free access or 30-day access for a small fee. Therecently announced Red Hat Linux distribution will be supported on the TestDrive server in January.
Earlier this year, IBM eServer iSeries was named "Best of Show" at theLinuxWorld Conference & Expo in San Francisco.
The Linux Test Drive joins a set of Linux software and hardware offeringsfor SMBs. The Small Business Suite for Linux includes DB2 UniversalDatabase, WebSphere Application Server and Lotus Domino. The Suite isbundled to deliver tools to help customers with messaging and collaboration,productivity, Web site creation and design, and data management.
The Linux Test Drive builds on the success of Linux and the IBM eServer z900mainframe in large enterprises. The Linux Community Development System, aprogram announced earlier this year, provides developers access to their ownvirtual mainframe running Linux, helping them build new enterpriseapplications that enable customers to consolidate their distributed serverson a single IBM zSeries mainframe.

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