“With shipment of an Intel-based ‘Linux mainframe’ slated for
later this year, and the release this month of new ‘Shunsaku XML
Search’ software, Fujitsu is currently pulling together mounting
momentum in an increasingly competitive enterprise Linux race.“Yet Fujitsu is certainly no stranger to Linux, anyway,
according to Richard McCormack, vice president of product and
solution.“Fujitsu established a Linux Center back in January, 2000, and
then joined the Open Source Development Lab (OSDL) in 2001,
McCormack pointed out, in an interview with LinuxPlanet. Over the
same time frame, the long-time mainframe computing specialist began
porting its Cobol-based middleware to Linux operating
environments…”