[ Thanks to Eric
Seynaeve for this link. ]
“The Linux Technology Center, or LTC, was founded in August,
1999, to work directly with the Linux development community with a
shared vision of making Linux succeed. Its 200-odd employees make
it one of the larger corporate groups of open source developers.
They contribute code ranging from patches to structural kernel
changes; from file systems and internationalization work to GPL’d
drivers. They also work to track Linux-related developments within
IBM.“Particular areas of interest for the LTC are working on things
such as scalability, serviceability, reliability, and systems
management–all with a view to making Linux ever more
enterprise-ready. Enabling Linux to work on the S/390 mainframe and
porting the JFS journaling file system to Linux are among their
many contributions to the community.“Another of the LTC’s core missions is to professionally test
Linux in lab settings the way any commercial project is tested. The
LTC contributes to the LTP Linux Test Project (LTP), as do SGI,
OSDL, Bull, and Wipro Technologies. What follows are the results
obtained from a comprehensive set of tests from the LTP suite on
the Linux kernel for an extended period of time. As you may have
guessed, Linux held up admirably under the continued stress…”