“Intel is considering adding to its portfolio of Linux
investments and believes that its biggest challenge is helping
make the open source operating system scaleable.”
“Graylish said Linux has come out of nowhere and is a major
factor in the Internet revolution, and that Intel’s investment in
Linux ‘is in scalability.’ ‘The biggest Linux challenge is in
getting it to scale to a high number of processors,’ he said.
Graylish [director of architecture at Intel Europe] commented
that this is the reason why Intel ‘has put resources into the
Trillian,’ a consortium of vendors including VA Linux that aims to
port Linux to Intel’s forthcoming high-end 64bit processor Itanium,
formerly Merced.”