Big boys team up to push Linux hard

Six giants of the industry are to form a group to commercially promote the Linux operating system, according to a report in today’s Nihon Keizai
Shimbun.

The newspaper says that IBM, Hitachi, NEC, NTT, Fujitsu and Argo 21 will not only tweak the operating system and make other software applications, but
will promote the OS actively in Japan.