HP Said to Support Two Open-Source Software Vendors

Zardon · Jun 1, 2004, 09:13 AM

Hewlett-Packard Co. will support open-source software companies JBoss and MySQL on its servers as it seeks to compete with International Business Machines Corp. in offering Linux-compatible services, a Linux executive said late Monday.

HP is expected to announce the move on Tuesday. It builds upon a series of Linux software blueprints the No. 2 computer maker announced in January, known as reference architectures.

HP is the largest vendor of computer servers that run on Linux, the freely available operating system that is gaining steam against Microsoft Corp.'s Windows operating systems and Unix offerings from Sun Microsystems Inc. and others.

"This is the latest in our string of pearls in our firsts with Linux," Martin Fink, vice president of Linux for Palo Alto, California-based HP, told Reuters in a telephone interview.

Under the agreements with MySQL, the maker of the most popular open-source database software program, and JBoss, a Java-based application server software maker, HP will certify and support those companies' software on HP's servers using Intel Corp.-compatible microprocessors and its Itanium 2 processors.

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Zardon DriverHeaven Founder Join Date: May 2002 Posts: 32,480 Rep Power: 179	HP Said to Support Two Open-Source Software Vendors Hewlett-Packard Co. will support open-source software companies JBoss and MySQL on its servers as it seeks to compete with International Business Machines Corp. in offering Linux-compatible services, a Linux executive said late Monday. HP is expected to announce the move on Tuesday. It builds upon a series of Linux software blueprints the No. 2 computer maker announced in January, known as reference architectures. HP is the largest vendor of computer servers that run on Linux, the freely available operating system that is gaining steam against Microsoft Corp.'s Windows operating systems and Unix offerings from Sun Microsystems Inc. and others. "This is the latest in our string of pearls in our firsts with Linux," Martin Fink, vice president of Linux for Palo Alto, California-based HP, told Reuters in a telephone interview. Under the agreements with MySQL, the maker of the most popular open-source database software program, and JBoss, a Java-based application server software maker, HP will certify and support those companies' software on HP's servers using Intel Corp.-compatible microprocessors and its Itanium 2 processors. reuters