eWEEK's Peter Galli reports on several high-powered, pro-Linux keynote talks at IBM's annual developer conference held in San Francisco this week. Galli writes . . .

“The connected universe is here to stay and would be significantly leveraged by the growth in open standards, IBM Senior Vice President Steve Mills told the hundreds of delegates in his keynote address this morning here at its technical developer conference — Solutions — which drew 3,000 attendees from 53 countries.”

“In his talk, titled 'Building the Next Generation of E-Business,' Mills said there would be a far more processed-base use of information technology going forward as businesses continue to demand a more dynamic model and a more horizontal approach”

” . . . All this interoperability and heterogeneity is made possible through open standards, which will be incorporated into all IBM solutions being delivered going forward. 'Standards are critical and continue to emerge. The drive to XML, the extension of HTML, open source, Linux all provide an enormous amount of leverage and make the vision of a dynamic e-business possible,' Mills said.”

” . . . IBM's vice president of technology and strategy, Irving Wladawsky-Berger, took the stage after Mills to talk about Big Blue's Linux strategy. The company has embraced Linux and open source because it believes these are critical foundations for the IT base of the future, he said. 'The implications of the huge advances in technology is astounding,” Wladawsky-Berger said. 'The infrastructure absorbing this technology is also growing by leaps and bounds' . . .”

” . . . 'We are embracing Linux across everything we do,' Wladawsky-Berger said. 'It is the only operating system that will run on architectures not yet invented — there is no other operating system you can say this about. It is permeating just about everything we do' . . .”

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