The world's largest telecommunications conglomerate, with 430 companies and 200,000 employees, has joined the Open Source Development Labs (OSDL) and will participate in the Lab's Data Center Linux and Carrier Grade Linux working groups.

Japan's NTT is the holding company of the NTT Group, some 430 companies forming a “global information sharing corporate group.” The NTT Group see its mission as the realization of full-scale, ubiquitous broadband. NTT provides a variety of access methods, such as optical-fiber access, third generation mobile telephones, and wireless LANs. The company recently chose Linux for its 3G mobile handsets, and it has evaluated carrier grade Linux hardware from NEC. It has also used Linux in a project demonstrating real-time delivery of uncompressed HDTV over the Internet.

NTT says it is joining the OSDL to accelerate the development of Linux for enterprise computing. Linux has seen growing adoption among enterprises in Japan, according to the OSDL.

According to IDC Enterprise Server Tracker, Linux server shipments and spending will grow at compound annual growth rates of 40 percent and 31 percent, respectively, from 2002 to 2007.

“Linux use in enterprise datacenters is growing quickly,” said Stuart Cohen, CEO of OSDL. “With the commitment of global companies like NTT, we can accelerate the adoption of Linux in Japan and around the world.”

Yuji Inoue, senior vice president of NTT, said, “We are joining OSDL to contribute in establishing Linux as the computing platform for telecom carrier IT systems.”

 
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