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IBM to Announce Alliance with Linux Software Provider.
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, February, 1999 by Smith, Lisa F.
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Feb. 18 -- Big Blue will swing its weight behind the rapidly emerging Linux operating system today when it announces an alliance with Red Hat Software.
Durham-based Red Hat, a leading provider of the Linux operating system, will work with IBM to develop, market and support Linux on IBM products aimed at business customers. Through IBM's Business Partners, resellers of IBM hardware, business customers will be able to buy servers, workstations and laptop computers that run official Red Hat Linux.
Linux is an operating system that competes with other systems developed by Microsoft, Novell, Apple Computer and others. Linux is known as open-source software, because users can access and change the code that runs...
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