IBM has set up a Linux Competency Center in the NIIT’s Rawalpindi Campus with lots and lots of support gear.
…As part of establishing the center, IBM has donated its range of enterprise systems (including pSeries Unix Servers, Intel Processor-based xSeries and BladeCenter servers, TotalStorage), Printers, PCs, CISCO equipment - all of the hardware running on Linux SuSE deployed by IBM Global Technology Services team. IBM will also provide free hardware and software services for the first year. In addition, IBM Middleware software will be used by NIIT in their curriculum for graduate and undergraduate students under IBM Academic Initiative program….
August 17, 2007 at 8:17 pm
I’m glad that it happened. I know some people who are in the linux field and I hope that they can keep the momentum going.