IBM Jumps on the Linux Bandwagon with Both Feet, Sort Of
R. Krause - January 28, 2000

Event Summary

January 10, 2000 12:30 PM ET - IBM is refocusing its corporate-wide Internet software efforts around Linux, a move it hopes will legitimize the open-source movement for large corporations while reviving its own flagging enterprise server business. In the process, IBM has dismantled the four-year-old Internet Division and has established a new Linux group under the Enterprise Server Division. The new group will be headed by former Internet division executive Irving Wladawsky-Berger, who will report to Sam Palmisano, senior vice president and group executive of ESD...