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Fujitsu Steps Up Linux Business Aimed at Large-Scale Enterprise Systems
Fujitsu Limited announced that it
is positioning Linux as one of the key operating systems for its
next-generation IT systems, and it plans to commercialize large-scale,
mission-critical enterprise systems to run on Linux within the next three
years. As a first step in its stepped-up Linux business efforts, Fujitsu
released Linux versions of nine of its middleware and packaged software
products, available initially in the Japanese market. (Thanks to Maya
Tamiya)
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Who will be the next one? Posted Oct 29, 2002 5:23 UTC (Tue) by jzhao (guest, #2865) [Link] The list of heavyweights supporting Linux now goes on and on. SAP, Oracle, IBM, Sun, CA, Fujitsu. Wonderful!On the other hand, we still do not see many desktop application suppliers along the line. When will we see these logos on our Linux desktop: Adobe, Macromedia, Quicken, EA, ...
Who will be the next one? Posted Oct 29, 2002 12:12 UTC (Tue) by freitag (guest, #3828) [Link] Adobe briefly had a FrameMaker beta out for Linux two years ago, but forunexplained reasons they dropped it before releasing it for production. It's quite a pity because FrameMaker is a great product for serious documentation writing.
Big-time, here we come! Posted Oct 29, 2002 19:06 UTC (Tue) by Max.Hyre (subscriber, #1054) [Link] Reading the press release, the item that jumped out at me was: 7. "NetCOBOL" development tool You know Linux has arrived in the datacenter when it gets a
proprietary COBOL(!) ported to it.
Best wishes,Max Hyre :-)
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