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Enterprise IT Solutions Provider Brings Global Experience to World's Premier Linux Advocacy Organization

BEAVERTON, Ore., Oct. 20 /PRNewswire/ -- The Open Source Development Labs (OSDL), a global consortium dedicated to accelerating the adoption of Linux in the enterprise, today announced that Unisys Corporation (NYSE: UIS), a leading provider of information technology services and solutions, has joined OSDL and will participate in a number of the Lab's Linux working groups.

Unisys has invested heavily in enterprise products and services, with a focus on helping organizations migrate from proprietary Unix/RISC-based systems to industry standard 32-bit and 64-bit Intel-based technology infrastructures.

"Enterprise customers are demanding industrial-strength Linux solutions," said Unisys President and Chief Operating Officer Joe McGrath. "By participating in OSDL's working groups, we'll contribute to important discussions with Linux developers, other IT vendors and end users to help advance the adoption of Linux in the enterprise data center."

Linux growth on servers is accelerating fast, according to market research analysts. In its most recent report (May 28, 2004), IDC said Linux server revenues grew almost 60 percent in the first quarter of 2004 compared to the same period in 2003. Server unit shipments of Linux jumped 46 percent over the same period, the seventh consecutive quarter of double digit growth, according to IDC.

"For Linux to continue its growth in the data center, customers will require hardware and software choices," said Stuart Cohen, CEO of OSDL. "We're very pleased to have Unisys join as our newest member and we look forward to tapping their expertise in high-end systems in the form of contributions to our working group initiatives." About Unisys

Unisys is a worldwide information technology services and solutions company. Our people combine expertise in consulting, systems integration, outsourcing, infrastructure and server technology with precision thinking and relentless execution to help clients, in more than 100 countries, quickly and efficiently achieve competitive advantage. For more information, visit http://www.unisys.com. About the Open Source Development Lab

OSDL -- home to Linus Torvalds, the creator of Linux -- is dedicated to accelerating the growth and adoption of Linux. Founded in 2000 by CA, Hitachi, HP, IBM, Intel and NEC, OSDL is a non-profit organization at the center of Linux supported by a global consortium of more than 40 of the world's largest Linux customers and IT industry leaders. OSDL sponsors industry-wide initiatives around Linux in telecommunications, in the enterprise data center and on corporate desktops. The Lab also provides Linux expertise and computing and test facilities in the United States and Japan available to developers around the world. Visit OSDL on the Web at http://www.osdl.org/. NOTE: OSDL is a registered trademark of Open Source Development Labs, Inc. Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds. Third party marks and brands are the property of their respective holders.

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Comments (9)

A bit late to the party, no?

AnonymousCoward ·
This http://web.archive.org/web/20040202013104/www.wehavethewayou...) is from January. They replaced the front page quite a few months ago, but less than a month ago the rest of the pages were still accessible (they’re all gone now).

And I quote, for purposes of study and research:

ESCAPE FROM UNIX: THE CASE FOR WINDOWS

Recent research and market trends indicate many enterprises are planning large-scale migrations away from the UNIX platform-primarily towards Microsoft® Windows®. Learn more about this movement from UNIX to Windows and the issue of increasing standardization in the data center.

MICROSOFT WINDOWS SERVER 2003: BUILT FOR TODAY'S CHALLENGES

Find out how a standardized, Windows-based environment helps increase staff efficiencies, delivers economies of scale and reduces TCO.

UNISYS: THE PROVEN PARTNER TO HELP YOU STANDARDIZE ON WINDOWS

Learn why Unisys is the only company with the expertise to fully optimize the benefits of Windows Server 2003 in a standardized, end-to-end data center.

THE ESCAPE RESOURCE CENTER

Read case studies, white papers and press releases documenting the advantages of the Unisys ES7000 family of servers and Microsoft Windows Server 2003.

UNISYS & MICROSOFT EVENTS SCHEDULE

Find out more about the upcoming Unisys and Microsoft Database Server Seminar Series and Consolidation Seminar Series.

I notice that they didn’t write “UNIX®” but did ® both MS and Win - so why haven’t The SCO Group sued them? (-:

So... are we going to see a WeHaveTheWayIn.com site, or are UniSys just going to pretend this all never happened?
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phsolide ·
Look, Unisys is the result of a merger between Burroughs and Sperry Rand (or Univac or whatever the hell they called themselves in the early 90s). Have they got rectal-cranial inversion? Yes. Are they management-bribing liars? Yes. Are they Pawns of Bill? Yes. Nothing good can come of this. OSDL should watch out, and remember the problems that consortiums of the past had. Remember in particular the "ACE" consortium, formed by SGI, DEC and Mips to promote OSF (another consortium!) on the R3000 CPU. DEC basically bogged the whole thing down until it split at the seams. DEC, busy failing itself, threw temper tantrums, insisted on official adoption of crap like DCE and OSF until the Alpha CPU came out. Then, they abandonded ACE. It's time to say "We reserve the right to refuse serivce to anyone." And then refuse to consort with Pawns of Bill, paid shills and astroturfers.
bstadil ·
I agree these guys can't be trusted, but maybe it's better having them inside the tent pissing out that reverse. That said they are close to irrelevant now much different from the DEC story of yore quoted by AnonymousCoward.

On a side note note. When they merged years ago they launched the slogan "The Power of Two" Their share price took a beating and I remember a financial magazine having a headline "The Power of 1 7/8'th"
AnonymousCoward ·
Yo bstadil; I didn't quote the DEC senario, phsolide did. I quoted my text straight off the WayBack mirror of UniSys' WeHaveTheWayOut site.

Unysis got Microsoft declared an Open System

tadelste ·
These guys are really a piece of work.

They got Microsoft to build a posix component to NT and then got NT declared an Open System. Next they started pouring Microsoft into the DOD.

Before anyone lauds them - let them explain.

If we demand that Sun explain, then let's have these people explain.
Glimmung ·
I read the PR, and they say customers are demanding a strong Linux platform (not word for word obviously), with the emphasis suggesting that that is their expert area and that they can make Linux that. Anyone else get that interpretation?

Maybe what they mean to say is that _their_ customers (DoD?) are demanding a Linux solution, and they can't afford not to support this anymore. I fully believe this company follows the money. And if customers start shouting Linux or you are out of here they would sell it.

Maybe Their customers are telling them not M$, and Linux is the only solution they can see as viable without too much cost. And rumors have abounded for years that M$ might make a product that will allow their apps to run on Linux, and this would be the perfect company for that kind of thing, judging from their history.

It seems conspiracy freaks are going to be out in force on this company.
tadelste ·
Glimmung

Conspiracy freaks abound. That's the nature of this community.

As one might say, let's look at the record. What does the record say - not what do you think they're thinking or what they might or might not do.

The record is that they are buddies with Bill and got a posix subsystem in NT and got the Feds to say "open system" which started a land slide.

The record.

phsolide ·
Having NT declared POSIX-compliant, or whatever they did, wasn't without its little problems.

For example, the Feds had to grant several wavers, because NT's original POSIX subsystem couldn't do fork() right, and it didn't have symbolic links in the filesystem(s) supported.

I recall reading an editorial or a letter to the editor in some minor system admin mag (usenix's :login;, I think) where one of the evaluating committee members, who had voted "not compliant" explained what NT's POSIX subsystem didn't get right. This guy almost, but not quite, called "corruption" on the whole mess.
TxtEdMacs ·
tadelste: I agree on calling Unisys to explain. I did not notice your comment, because while I will read about Sun due to their history, I do not trust anything from Unisys. Hence, I simply skipped the writeups.

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