IBM Goes Open Source on Key Microprocessor

Posted by dave on Apr 30, 2004 8:17 PM EDT
Spectrum; By Linda Geppert
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In the battle between the free, open-source operating system Linux and proprietary operating systems, IBM Corp. has emerged as Linux’s champion. Now, seeming to take a lesson from its experience with open-source software, the company has decided to make its premier processor architecture, dubbed Power and used as the brains inside many IBM servers and supercomputers as well as Apple Computer Inc.’s Macintosh PCs, into an open-source technology.

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