IBM Opens First-Of-Its-Kind Linux Testing Lab
IBM is developing Linux for the telecommunications industry at a lab in Beaverton.
The Linux Service Provider Lab (LSPL), provides an environment to test and validate applications, including voice over IP, softswitch, next generation wireless applications, unified messaging and network services. IBM, of course, is committed to spending billions and billions on Linux in the next few years.
Working with Intel, IBM is using Network Equipment Building System (NEBS) and European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) certified IBM eServer xSeries systems in the lab to test Linux solutions for converged voice and data networks.
“The LSPL will be a tremendous resource for ISVs in the telecom market to validate their applications on a Carrier-Grade class of Linux,” said Jim Ready, President and CEO, Monta Vista Software. MontaVista plans Carrier-Grade class Linux products and will test them in this lab.”
The IBM lab, not far from the old Sequent building (bought by IBM a few years ago), is up close and personal with the Open Source Development Lab (OSDL). OSDL is also committed to creating a true “carrier grade” Linux.
Open Source Development Lab (OSDL) is an independent, vendor-neutral, non-profit organization dedicated to enabling and guiding Linux and Linux-based development for enterprise and carrier grade functionality worldwide. OSDL hangs with the heavyweights; some 22 industry leaders are members of OSDL including Alcatel, Caldera, Cisco, Computer Associates, Covalent, Dell, Fujitsu, Hewlett-Packard Company, Hitachi, IBM, Intel, Linuxcare, Miracle Linux Corporation, Mitsubishi Electric, MontaVista Software, NEC Corporation, Nokia, Red Hat, SuSE, Toshiba, TurboLinux and VA Software.
All this makes Samantha marvel how one kid with a good idea can change the world. Her ultimate Boy Band would include:
Linus Torvalds: By opening the source code for modification he enabled anyone to improve it and created a “free” alternative to Microsoft. Thousands of applications now run on it and corporations now depend on it.
Jon Johansen: The 17 year-old cracked the DVD encryption code with DeCSS so DVD movie disks could play on his Linux machine. It Napsterized movies. Sued by MPAA.
Jerome Rota: French teenager who hacked Microsoft’s proprietary MPEG-4 code, creating DivX.com, an open source alternative to fee-based MPEG-4 and arguably superior. With hundreds of developers working “free”, DIVX puts DVDs on an ordinary CD and makes downloading movies feasible.
Adrian Lamo: Homeless youth who breaks into Excite@home, Worldcom and the New York Times tells them what he did and how he did it.
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