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IBM Opens Power Platform

NEW YORK—Taking the game plan implemented so successfully by Linux proponents, IBM will open up its Power microprocessor platform to enable other companies to innovate on top of the architecture. The goal is to enable Power-based solutions to grow to the point where much of the technology developed—from the smallest embedded systems to the largest […]

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Jeffrey Burt
Mar 31, 2004
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NEW YORK—Taking the game plan implemented so successfully by Linux proponents, IBM will open up its Power microprocessor platform to enable other companies to innovate on top of the architecture.

The goal is to enable Power-based solutions to grow to the point where much of the technology developed—from the smallest embedded systems to the largest supercomputers—is created atop the Power architecture, IBM officials said Wednesday at a news conference here.

To reach that goal, executives said they will aggressively reach out to partners and move to develop a vibrant community that will use the Power platform as a key building block for products that will be easily integrated with each other.

“We need a whole community of innovators to help us bring Power everywhere we want to take it,” Irving Wladawsky-Berger, vice president for technology and strategy at IBM, told a room of more than 100 reporters and analysts. “Only through collaboration can a technology become a platform for innovation.”

Over the past few years, IBM has been moving in this direction, with various partnerships with such companies as Apple Computer Inc., Samsung and Red Hat Inc. At the event here, executives laid out several aggressive plans to create an ecosystem that will remake the Power platform into a more open and customizable technology.

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Jeffrey Burt has been a journalist for more than three decades, the last 20-plus years covering technology. During more than 16 years with eWEEK, he covered everything from data center infrastructure and collaboration technology to AI, cloud, quantum computing and cybersecurity. A freelance journalist since 2017, his articles have appeared on such sites as eWEEK, eSecurity Planet, Enterprise Networking Planet, Enterprise Storage Forum, Channel Insider, The Next Platform, ITPro Today, Channel Futures, Channelnomics, SecurityNow, and Data Breach Today.

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