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  • [Photo] Marcos Oliveira de Carvalho • March 16, 2002
    ``Between IBM Corp. and Sun Microsystems Inc., the public hears a lot about how Linux is being used to make business run smoother without Microsoft Corp.'s tentacles all over it. But one tech giant has started touting the open source philosophy to help beyond the money-hungry influence of the business world – in research.

    ``Palo Alto, Calif.'s Hewlett-Packard Co. Monday said it has put the finishing touches on the forging of a worldwide consortium whose focus is on the formation of Linux-based Intel Itanium applications for academic, government and industrial research. Called the Gelato Federation, the group will develop commodity software to help scientists conduct technology research in life and physical sciences.

    ``Gelato will create software downloads for researchers from the greater open source community, and, in the spirit of most technically-devout consortiums, will offer access to forums and technical data to make the Itanium Linux platform more accessible to researchers and their support staffs.''

    Full story:
    http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article/0,,10_989041,00.html

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