“At the LinuxWorld Conference and Expo this week in Boston, HP
is expanding the reach of its Linux Reference Architecture in
several areas, including into its BladeSystem configurations, said
Marin Fink, vice president of Linux for the Palo Alto, Calif.,
company. Linux is already available on HP’s Itanium 2-based
Integrity and x86-based ProLiant systems, and blade server
customers will now be able to choose between HP’s commercial and
Linux software stacks. The demand is there, Fink said: By the end
of the year, he expects that half of the BladeSystems will ship
with Linux…”