In his first 18 months as general manager of IBM’s worldwide Linux team, Jim Stallings has seen dozens of corporate shops and governments around the
world push Linux from the periphery to the heart of their IT strategies — never a bad thing for job security when you have the word “Linux” in your
title. But with the open source operating system now more firmly entrenched, the next challenge for Stallings and his team is to help Linux drive
IBM’s companywide On Demand initiative deeper into corporate accounts with one hand while fighting the ongoing server battle against Windows with the
other.
world push Linux from the periphery to the heart of their IT strategies — never a bad thing for job security when you have the word “Linux” in your
title. But with the open source operating system now more firmly entrenched, the next challenge for Stallings and his team is to help Linux drive
IBM’s companywide On Demand initiative deeper into corporate accounts with one hand while fighting the ongoing server battle against Windows with the
other.
Link: infoworld.com
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