Is IBM Becoming Linuxs Father Figure?
(Jan 4th, 23:27:32 ) “A few months after IBM went public with its work on Apache, Daniel Frye brought up Linux at a regular meeting of IBM’s software division’s Emerging Strategy Group. Frye had been working with the scientific community and had noticed that Linux was on the minds of “some very bright people” within the scientific community. However, Linux was virtually unknown within IBM. The response from his peers at the meeting: “You brought it up; you go figure it out,” remembers Frye.” “So he did, e-mailing out a one-page description of what was going on with Linux. That one-page description got the attention of IBM’s VP of technical strategy, Carla Gude. From there, “it was just a snowball,” says Frye. By October of 1998 one of IBM’s most influential thinkers, Larry Loucks (a.k.a. the “father of AIX”) had laid down the groundwork for a formal Linux strategy in a white paper that was presented to IBM’s executive team.” “At the very least, Linux represented a new platform for the
