IBM And The Open Source Community Deliver new Enterprise Capabilities To Linux
Technologies Help Speed Linux Adoption
ARMONK, NY - 28 Jun 2001: IBM today announced the availability of a series of
Linux technologies developed in conjunction with the open source community to enhance
the enterprise capabilities of Linux. Today's announcement will further enable Linux
for mainstream business uses.
To speed the development of Linux, IBM, as an active participant in the open source
community, is announcing the following technologies:
- Version 1.0 availability of its Journaled File System (JFS) for Linux --
a high-performance file system that provides rapid recovery from a system power
outage or crash and the ability to support extremely large disk configurations.
This file system is based on proven file system technology from IBM and has
been open sourced under the GNU General Public License (GPL). The code is available
at http://oss.software.ibm.com/jfs. JFS was initially open sourced in January
of 2000, and has had more than 30 code releases since then.
- Version 1.0 availability of Next Generation POSIX Threading (NGPT) --this
POSIX threading package for Linux improves the scalability of multi-threaded
enterprise applications. The NGPT will also enhance user application portability
by making Linux conform with industry standards for threading. The code was
derived from the existing GNU Pth and has been open sourced under the LGPL.
The code is available at http://oss.software.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource/pthreads.
NGPT was initially open sourced in January of 2001.
The availability of Version 1.0 of these technologies signifies that they are now
ready for customer use.
Adding to its numerous open source projects, IBM today is also announcing its
participation on a project in conjunction with SGI and Open Source Development Lab,
focusing on enabling enterprise test and verification processes, methodologies and
tooling for the Linux platform:
- Linux Test Project -- a project for the discussion, development and posting
of open source test suites; an associated test harness will also help Linux
distributors and enterprise customers stress test Linux. IBM is currently working
with SGI and the Open Source Development Lab (OSDL) to open source the first
test suite focusing on customer enterprise workloads. The project resides at
http://sourceforge.net/projects/ltp.
"IBM is working side-by-side the Open Source community to improve Linux and to add
the necessary enterprise capabilities that will support the e-business functions
demanded by today's companies," said Dr. Daniel Frye, Director, IBM Linux Technology
Center. "With the availability for customers of JFS and NGPT, we are getting one
step closer to making Linux enterprise ready."
IBM has been working with the open source community since 1998. A list of IBM's
technical contributions can be found at the Linux Technology Center web site, http://www.ibm.com/linux/ltc.
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