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BIG,BIG LINUX NEWS........IBM, HP, Intel in Linux pact Computer companies team to create lab for developers using operating system August 30, 2000: 9:15 a.m. ET NEW YORK (Reuters) - Computer makers International Business Machines Corp. and Hewlett-Packard Co. said Wednesday they've teamed up with chip maker Intel Corp. to form an independent lab for Linux developers to expand the alternative operating system for heavy business tasks. The consortium, which also includes NEC Corp., plans to provide equipment and funding to the lab over the next several years. "We're each putting in millions per year over the next several years," said Will Swope, vice president of Intel's (INTC: Research, Estimates) architecture solutions enabling group. Giga Group analyst Stacey Quandt said the effort was a bid to rev up Linux to compete with Sun Microsystems Inc.'s Solaris operating system, which now dominates the data centers that house the technology behind Web-based business operations. "This is a way to address some of the higher functionality and feature sets of Solaris," she said. "This is an open source or a collaborative way for these companies to advance Linux and get it into the datacenter." Sun (SUNW: Research, Estimates), the largest maker of computers that run Web pages, known as servers, has not made Linux part of its strategy. Linux, which was developed by a Finnish programmer, is free and freely distributed and developed by programmers around the world. It is currently not up to carrying out industrial strength business tasks, but companies such as IBM have committed to developing it for business use. "The company that stands to lose the most from these efforts is Sun," said Quandt. "Their goal is to get Linux into the data center within 2 years." Some of the efforts are to bring Linux to scale beyond the 8-way, or eight processor, architecture it can currently run on to more powerful machines. Other efforts include improving Linux's ability to manage workloads, said Ross Maury, vice president of Unix software at IBM (IBM: Research, Estimates). "We think Linux is an important phenomenon of the Internet," he said. "It is the fastest growing system in the world today." Companies such as Red Hat Inc. (RHAT: Research, Estimates) , Linuxcare Inc., Turbolinux Inc. and VA Linux Systems Inc. (LNUX: Research, Estimates), whose core businesses are Linux-specific development or tech support services, are also backing the lab. The lab, currently under formation, will provide open source developers with a centralized enterprise development environment for sharing ideas and innovations. "The Open Source Development Lab will help fulfill a need that individual Linux and open source developers often have -- access to high-end enterprise hardware," said Brian Behlendorf, Chief Technical Officer of open source Web site Collab.net.