IBM's Developer Community Achieves Record Growth in 2006 and Advances Open
Source Development
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| In 2006, growth in emerging markets such as Russia, China, India and
| Brazil were key drivers for developerWorks, accounting for almost 20
| percent of the site's unique visitors each month. Growing at a rate
| of 52 percent year-to-year and hitting an all-time peak of 450,000
| unique visitors in September, developerWorks China is at the
| forefront of this growth and supplies the country's developer
| population with localized and translated content.
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http://www.marketwire.com/mw/release_html_b1?release_id=198304
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Linux-on-Mainframe Apps Up 100%: IBM
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| IBM recently reported a 390% jump in mainframe sites running Linux.
| It says more than 60% of its mainframe revenue is now coming from
| new workloads, with approximately 20% of the revenue and 30% of the
| MIPS coming from Linux customers, which is what has the ISVs
| interested.
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http://issj.sys-con.com/read/317754.htm
IBM's Power Architecture Attracting More Linux Developers
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| IBM makes less revenue on servers sold with Linux, compared to
| those that ship with one if its commercial operating systems --
| such as AIX or OS 400 -- but that's offset by the company's
| growing Linux support practice. Linux compatibility also makes
| the company's servers accessible to a wider variety of users,
| such as educational institutions on limited budgets. "We
| benefit from the wider ecosystem that Linux is a part of,"
| says Jollans.
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/cmp/20061202/tc_cmp/196601027
IBM Achieves Major "Linux on POWER" Milestone
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| The number of tested, native applications available for the Linux on
| POWER platform has grown more than 200 percent in the last two years,
| marking it as a fast-developing new IT ecosystem.
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http://biz.yahoo.com/iw/061201/0190250.html
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