IBM VP Talks About Another $1 Billion for Linux Development (Video)

Brad McCredie is an IBM VP, and head of IBM's Power Systems development. (He's also one of the mere few hundred IBM Fellows that have been named in the past 50 years.) He pointed out in his keynote at this year's LinuxCon gathering that IBM has been adopting and supporting Linux (and associated software, like Apache) in various ways for the past decade and a half. Famously, the company promised to support Linux to the tune of a billion dollars in 2001, and McCredie renewed the promise on Tuesday. I sat down to talk with him about just how they'll go about spending the next billion dollars on Linux development; when a company has more than $200 billion in market capitalization, there are lots of ways to spread it around. Spending on hardware is one way, and McCredie also talked about the recently announced OpenPower consortium, which ties directly into the ongoing Linux push.

Comments

Re:All of it to be spent hiring the cheapest talen

[Zero__Kelvin]

You get what you pay for doesn't apply here at all. First of all, code needs to get accepted into the kernel. If you knew how that works, then you would know that garbage isn't getting into it. The people will have to be highly skilled and know their stuff. Even if they spend ten billion on "cheap labor" then there won't be a single line of code that actually makes it into the kernel.

Re:On a serious note

[Anonymous Coward]

IBM doesn't make desktops anymore. They sold all that off to Lenovo. Desktop Linux means nothing to them.