International Business Machines Corp.: Linux campaign

Kevin Teague

The world's largest computer company, International Business Machines Corporation (IBM), was one of the first large computer companies to sell its mainframe servers with an operating system called Linux.

International Business Machines Corp.: Linux campaign

Kevin Teague

OVERVIEW

The world's largest computer company, International Business Machines Corporation (IBM), was one of the first large computer companies to sell its mainframe servers with an operating system called Linux. Linux was developed in 1991 by a software developer searching for a free alternative to the costly operating system called Unix. Unlike Unix and operating systems such as Microsoft Corporation's Windows, Linux was free, or "open-source," and available without patent or copyright protections. To cut down on software costs, IBM shipped 15 percent of its servers with the free Linux operating system...

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