Oracle, IBM, NEC Team for Linux Push in Japan

Major IT companies including Oracle, IBM and NEC are allying to sell hardware running Linux OSes in Japan, according to published reports. The undertaking aims to respond to procurement guidelines drawn by the country’s Communications Ministry in March that call for the government to use the open source Linux operating systems starting this summer.

More than 10 major information technology firms, including Oracle (Nasdaq: ORCL)

, IBM (NYSE: IBM)

and NEC (Nasdaq: NIPNY)

, plan to form a consortium to sell servers and systems running the Linux

operating system in Japan, the Nikkei business daily reported.

Oracle Japan will take the initiative in launching the operation next month and major server manufacturers such as Hitachi (NYSE: HIT)

, Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ)

and Dell (Nasdaq: DELL)

are expected to participate, according to Nikkei.

Major systems developers such as NTT Data have also indicated they would join the group.

The Nikkei said this would be the first time that major IT firms join forces to market equipment running the free software.

The undertaking aims to respond to procurement guidelines drawn by the Communications Ministry in March that call for the government to use the open source

Linux operating systems starting in July, the newspaper said.

The ministry believes that excessive reliance on Microsoft’s (Nasdaq: MSFT)

Windows operating system, for which the source code is not disclosed, will lead to a loss of freedom in systems development and have other harmful effects, it said.

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