IBM Expects BIG Profits from Linux

Warren Togami warren at togami.com
Sat Sep 29 04:28:09 PDT 2001


http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/09/28/2120245&mode=thread

IBM: Linux a key growth area
IBM on Tuesday said it expects to generate at least $7 billion in sales
revenue within three years, by focusing on seven key growth areas. One of
those seven areas is Linux, along with life sciences, pervasive computing,
network processing, data storage, appliance servers, and e-utilities. Linux
will undoubtedly factor in Big Blue's goal to expand sales of existing and
new supercomputers and database projects, not to mention data storage
computers.

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In other news from IBM, the company announced this week that it had sold its
1,000th zSeries mainframe computer. Quite an impressive resurgence of "big
iron" computing, and analysts (not mention IBM) say that the revived
popularity of mainframes is due in no small part to Linux.



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