See: "http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2003-01-07-004-26-IN-BZ-HE";
LinuxWorld Australia: IBM's Open Source Advocate
"Advocating use of open source software wasn't a natural for Frye. Upon
first
learning of Linux at a conference in 1997, Frye admits being a little
dismissive
about the operating system. At the conference, a research team created a
concept
for a next-generation supercomputer based on a cluster of low-cost,
Intel-based machines that would run Linux, recounts Frye, who at the time
was with an IBM group responsible for identifying computing trends. Frye was
intrigued by the supercomputer concept, but didn't get the team's insistence
that Linux would be the operating system.
"'My first reaction was, an open source thing? C'mon, what's that all
about?' he says..."
eWeek: Seeking Server Advantage
"eWeek: With commonality in hardware and the ability of at least one
operating system, Linux, to run on all the systems, are you headed
ultimately to a single product line?
"Zeitler: I don't think we'd have a single product line. But we would
give customers a lot more deployment choice. We're taking our hypervisors
[software for controlling multiple operating systems at once], putting them
in microcode and letting people put multiple [operating systems] on one
environment. You could take a zSeries system and run hundreds of thousands
of Linuxes on it, and Linux could inherit some of the reliability
characteristics of this platform..."
