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IBM, Red Hat Team for Linux Adoption Acceleration
[September 16, 2005]

IBM, Red Hat Team for Linux Adoption Acceleration


By DAVID R. BUTCHER, Assistant Editor, Customer Interaction Solutions 
 
IBM and Red Hat together today announced a global initiative to further accelerate the development and adoption of Linux-based solutions in emerging markets, as well as in markets already established worldwide. 


 
The two companies will provide software developers in China, India, Russia and Korea, to name a few, with technical resources, expertise and implementation services to assist them in quickly and cost-effectively porting and certifying their new applications on IBM software and hardware and Red Hat Enterprise Linux. 

 
The result, as both companies hope, will be that developers are able to more easily build standards-based solutions that don’t exclusively lock customers into proprietary operating environments, eliminating “the need to rip and replace existing systems.”
 
As well, IBM is offering 29 new Linux skill-building tutorials on IBM’s developer resource developerWorks. These tutorials provide training for developers to attain professional competence and certification in Linux systems and network administration. 
 
“The trend we see in the marketplace is obvious where customers, even those who had no intentions of deploying Linux-based systems, are now demanding solutions that are open and platform agnostic than the proprietary Windows infrastructure,” Shachar Melamed, director of business development, Sky Solutions, said in the collaborative announcement. “With IBM’s indispensable expertise and help at the Innovation Centers and with Red Hat Enterprise Linux as a solid foundation, we can now support a variety of platforms for our customers.”
 
To ISVs, Red Hat will provide copies of Red Hat Enterprise Linux with supporting documentation and access to Red Hat Network as part of this initiative. The North Carolina-based company will also facilitate onsite registration for its Technology Partner Program to help ISVs certify their applications on Red Hat Enterprise Linux on IBM hardware and middleware. At the IBM Innovation Centers, IBM will offer ISVs consulting support and technical expertise to help them migrate, test, develop and implement their applications for Red Hat Enterprise Linux on IBM platforms.
 
IBM and Red Hat also will provide developers with technical resources and development support at IBM Innovation Centers in 15 locations across Asia, North America and Europe. IBM’s Innovation Centers network provides developers and business partners with access to technical skills, resources and business expertise to help them more easily build, deploy and optimize customized solutions based on IBM’s open middleware and hardware technology. 
 
For more information, visit www.redhat.com and www.ibm.com/linux.
 
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David R. Butcher is Assistant Editor of Customer Interaction Solutions. To see more articles by David Butcher, please visit his archive.

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