“Hewlett Packard (HP) will raise its profile in the Linux market
on Monday by making the open source operating system one of its
three “strategic operating systems”. … Details of the
announcement are expected to be outlined at the LinuxWorld
conference in San Jose, California next week. Analysts said HP is
reacting to user demand and following Dell and IBM, which have
previously made similar commitments to Linux.”
“Kirsten Ludvigsen, a director at analyst IDC, said: “HP can
be really expected to embrace Linux as a service and support
platform, and port its applications to Linux. Ludvigsen added that
HP’s increased commitment would allow it to step up its involvement
in the Trillian project to port Linux to Intel’s forthcoming 64bit
processor platform.”
“Chris Martin, an analyst at researcher Xephon, welcomed HP’s
increased commitment to Linux, which he said would both expand the
vendor’s market and push forward the open source operating system
generally.”