“In a clear break of the tacit Intel/Microsoft alliance,
Intel is helping provide a $24 million Open Source Development Lab
where struggling developers may gain access to enterprise class
Intel hardware.”
“The 11,000-square-foot facility will be located west of
Portland, Ore., and will be used to encourage the development of
software to run under the Linux operating system on powerful
servers in business environments, the same target as Microsoft has
targeted for its Windows 2000 Server, Advanced Server and Data
Center systems.”
“William Swope, vice president of Intel architecture, in a
keynote address at LinuxWorld in New York on Thursday, said that
the OSDL will offer a $25,000 prize every six months “to the
developer or group that makes the most significant contribution to
Linux in the data center.”