NTT Joins OSDL

craigoda writes "NTT, the world's largest telecommunications company has joined the Open Source Development Lab (OSDL) (Japanese) to focus on increasing the availability, clustering, and performance of Linux for use as the infrastructure OS in next generations telecommunications systems. NTT's work on Linux will be done through OSDL's Carrier Grade Linux (CGL) working group. Here is a Dow Jones Business story was released yesterday based on the rumour that NTT was joining. Looking at the OSDL web site, the rumour appears to be true."

Comments

Reflects NTT's strategy

[Anonymous Coward]

I used to work as consultant for NTT back in the mid-80s and they've always supported innovative strategies within the company. The folks at OSDL will be able to tap in large talent pool within the company.

Which is nice.

NTT joins OSDL

[tandr]

... which is basically big "Fu.., sorry, Thank You, but No, thank you" to SCO even after memorable trip of McBride to Japan

Re:NTT joining OSDL

[LuYu]

...they probably will support multiple operating systems anyway.

You say that as if it would only be good if the support were exclusive to Linux. As long as the support is not exclusive to MS, life is good. More mainstream support for Linux can only be a good thing.

Everything old is new again

[ekarjala]

Bell Labs develops UNIX as a development environment for next generation telecommunication systems. It grows to encompass a myriad of applications over the years. One day a bright young Finn hacks a derivative to run on commidity computing hardware. This derivative "Linux" is embraced first by hard core geeks for their own use (and as an expression of independence from various monolithic computing behemoths) and eventually, through the coding and evangelizing efforts of this user community, gains acceptance in enterprise level computing environments. Now NTT wants to use Linux as a platform for next generation data/telecomm applications...

Memo

[grub]

From: Darl McBride

To: Renaissance Ventures

Subject: We have 'em on the run!

Did you hear that NTT joined with OSDL? They'll be working on our
Linux OS for all new projects! Obviously they have come to their
senses, email from "l337_d00dx0rzz@hotmail.com" said that NTT would
be sending us a large sum of money for licensing.

Darl

ps: we *could* use another $500 or $600K to make this month's payroll.

I'm confused

[Anonymous Coward]

Slashdot needs to provide a list of corporations approved by the geek collective, so I can skip reading and get right to the knee-jerk reaction.

NTT's Plans: Good for Linux but Bad for Sun

[reporter]

Within Japan, NTT laboratories have the same respect (among researchers) that AT&T laboratories once had before the breakup of Ma Bell. NTT joining the Open Source Development Laboratory (OSDL) to develop Linux will surely help to raise Linux's visibility and acceptance among Japanese high-technology companies. Moreover, NTT's work aggressively developing Linux at the OSDL will help to ensure the ultimate failure of Chinese attempts to recruit Japanese and Korean researchers to build an independent operating system (OS) that is incompatible with Windows or Linux. Please read "Asian trio to replace Windows".

Further, NTT joining the OSDL is extremely bad news for Sun Microsystems. NTT currently uses Solaris to run its group servers, but NTT is clearly committed to migrating all its servers from Solaris to Linux. NTT is the beginning of the Linux avalanche that will lock Sun computer systems out of the telecommunications market. (reference: " NTT Mulls Joining Global Consortium For Linux Development")

... from the desk of the reporter