IBM and Red HatTeam to Accelerate Linux Adoption in Emerging Markets

IBM and Red HatTeam to Accelerate Linux Adoption in Emerging Markets

Red Hat (NASDAQ: RHAT) and IBM today announced a global initiative to help accelerate the development and adoption of Linux-based solutions in emerging markets, such as China, India, Russia and Korea as well as in established markets worldwide. The two companies will provide software developers around the world with technical resources, expertise and implementation services to help them port and certify their new applications on IBM software and hardware and Red Hat Enterprise Linux more quickly and cost-effectively. As a result, developers can more easily build standards-based solutions that won’t lock customers into proprietary operating environments, eliminating the need to rip and replace existing systems.

A shift is occurring in emerging markets as the number of customers demanding technology solutions based on open source and open standards continues to accelerate. According to an IDC study, industry sales of Linux servers surpassed the $1 billion mark in revenue for the fourth consecutive quarter, while in the second quarter of 2005 worldwide Linux sales grew 45 percent (IDC’s Worldwide Quarterly Server Tracker, August 2005).

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