The investment will help clients use big data and cloud computing better

Sep 20, 2013 13:59 GMT  ·  By

Linux may not be such a big name on the PC front, but it has quite a few customers on the enterprise side of things, in no small part thanks to being a free, open-source operating system. IBM has now invested in that OS.

And the investment wasn't small at all. The sum of $1B/€740M never is. Although, to be fair, IBM didn't only invest in Linux, but in other open source technologies as well.

IBM has also opened a new IBM Power Systems Linux Center for developers, clients and partners in Montpellier, France.

The first order of business will be to enable developers and clients to handle a new wave of applications for data centers.

By this time next year, companies and enterprises should be much better equipped to use big data systems and data centers designed out of IBM Power Systems servers.