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Information Technology News Nokia Siemens joins Linux Foundation to push 'telco' Linux | Nokia Siemens joins Linux Foundation to push 'telco' Linux |
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| by Stuart Corner | |
| Tuesday, 14 August 2007 | |
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According to Stephan Scholz, CTO of Nokia Siemens Networks, "Nokia Siemens Networks will play an active role as a Linux Foundation member by contributing both financial and technical resources to the Linux ecosystem to make sure it remains state of the art,." He added: "In Linux, the most important things for us are certified carrier grade interfaces as well as the interoperability between various Linux distributions. We look forward to working with the Linux Foundation and continue to use Linux in our commercially available products." Nokia and Siemens, prior to the formation of their joint venture were co-founders along with other major telco equipment makers of the Scope Alliance in January 2006. The alliance gives as its mission "to enable and promote the availability of open carrier grade base platforms based on commercial off the shelf (COTS) hardware & software building blocks, and to promote interoperability to better serve service providers and consumers," and its aims as being "accelerating the deployment of carrier grade base platforms for service provider applications." |
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