A group of hardware and software vendors will announce late Wednesday morning here at the LinuxWorld Conference and Expo that they are working together to develop a new version of the Linux operating system that is optimized for the telecommunications industry.
A working group for the carrier-grade version of the open-source operating system was established this month and currently includes Alcatel, Cisco Systems Inc., Hewlett-Packard Co., IBM, Intel Corp., MontaVista Software, Nokia, Red Hat and SuSE.
The working group is a forum designed to guide carrier-grade Linux development and encourage the development of commercial open-standard components on top of Linux to implement the required platform functionality.
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