IBM push incentive policy attempts to increase the Linux server market share

EST on April 4th (Beijing time April 5th), according to the latest overseas news, through a series of products and promotional activities launched, IBM company will try to increase their server and Middleware Market Based on the open source Linux operating system in the share.

IBM company will provide resellers with small and medium enterprise market and can easily integrate into the Windows network server products. IBM has also launched a partnership with Zend, a software company, to introduce the popular PHP scripting language into IBM's System I intermediate server platform. IBM has also launched a promotional program for resellers to stimulate consumers from using Microsoft Exchange communications products to use IBM's Lotus Workplace software. The news comes from the Linux World Congress in Boston.

IBM also announced the launch of a new product portfolio package, which integrates the IBM server, server software and Novell's small and medium business enterprise server Suse version Linux. IBM also announced that the product is a collaboration with the Linux World Conference results. IBM also said it had made a new security certification authorized by the international certification body Common Criteria. IBM said that now running on the IBM server, Red Hat Enterprise Edition Linux 4 access control, file protection assessment has exceeded its own level.

IBM currently sees the Linux operating system as an alternative to the Microsoft Windows operating system on a commercial server platform. IBM is responsible for the global Linux and open source business vice president Scott Handy said: "we are better than Microsoft system solutions provider more balanced, no matter how serious the problem is they always will Windows operating system to promote universal solution." Later this week, has been working in the IBM company's current general manager of Microsoft Virzi AF will give a speech at the Linux World Congress, which will include between Microsoft and the Linux operating system and Windows operating system and Linux operating system interoperability.

IBM will provide its channel reseller for small and medium enterprise server products, these servers will be equipped with Novell's Suse version of the Linux operating system and IBM's WebSphere middleware. These IBM servers will also include Community Edition WebSphere Application Server software and Likewise software. WebSphere Application Server software was acquired last year after the acquisition of Gluecode company IBM software renamed. Likewise software comes from the independent software manufacturer Centeris, which allows system administrators to control the Linux operating system based on the Windows user interface.

According to market research firm Gartner said, IBM last year, based on the Linux server market share of more than 28%, or $6 billion 900 million. IBM will work with the software company Zend to integrate the PHP scripting language to the System I intermediate server platform to meet the needs of the information technology sector to use scripting language to access IBM's DB2 database software. In addition, IBM also launched a program called Penguin transplant incentive plan, will be converted to the use of Lotus dealers to provide $20 units of financial incentives to support e-mail. The total amount of the award is $20 thousand, which will end in August of this year