IBM has made no secret of its committment to Linux and open source technology, and even has a Web site listing its many contributions. Thus, the company was especially proud to receive recognition as the computer industry vendor with the most aggressive Linux strategy in D.H. Brown Associates' recent report “Linux Strategies and Solutions 2003: Linux Server Suppliers Contend for Leadership.”

An executive summary of the D.H. Brown Associates report can be downloaded with a short registration.

The report notes that IBM employs over 300 open source programmers and fields the greatest number of open source projects compared with Dell, Sun and HP. Of special note are IBM's contributions to Apache and XML.

IBM essentially made Apache usable on w32 by implementing the multi-threading capabilities of Apache 2.0. This in turn made IBM's WebSphere solution more portable across platforms.

XML grew out of IBM lawyer Charles Goldfarb's Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML), and IBM has provided many industry leading SGML/XML tools since Goldfarb invented SGML at IBM in the 70s.

 
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