Vendors Team Up for Linux Cause
18-AUG-2006
By Pedro Pereira
A handful of IT vendors are stepping up marketing and support efforts for Linux solution providers with an eye to increasing business opportunities around the open-source operating system.
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Levanta aims to knock down barriers and change perceptions that hobble adoption of Linux technology. The vendor teamed up with three other companies – big names in the industry—to gather more information on Linux trends, opportunities and needs in the IT channel.
The other vendors are Hewlett-Packard, of Palo Alto, Calif.; Advanced Micro Devices, of Sunnyvale, Calif.; and Novell, of Waltham, Mass.
Together, the four vendors commissioned a study to get a better sense of how much Linux activity there is in the IT channel and how they can capitalize on it. The study did not reveal what percentage of channel companies work with Linux, but indicated that solution providers that sell and service Linux solutions do so profitably.
The more work they do with Linux, according to the study, the more profitable they are.
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