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The [[IBM]] '''Linux Technology Center''' ('''LTC''') is an organization focused on development for the [[Linux]] kernel]] and related [[open-source software]] projects. In 1999, IBM created the LTC to combine its software developers interested in Linux and other open-source software into a single organization. Much of the LTC's early effort was focused on making "all of its server platforms Linux friendly."[<ref>{{cite web|url=http://linuxgazette.net/issue59/correa2.html] |title=IBM: The Big Blue Support for the Linux Community LG #59 |publisher=Linuxgazette.net |access-date=2013-09-21 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130702193733/http://linuxgazette.net/issue59/correa2.html |archive-date=2013-07-02 }}</ref> The LTC collaborated with the Linux community to make Linux run optimally on processor architectures such as [[x86]], [[MainframeIBM computermainframe|mainframe]], Power[[PowerPC]], and more[[Power ISA]]. In recent recentlyyears, the [[Cellfocus Broadbandof Engine]]the LTC has expanded to include several other open source initiatives.

With about 185 IBM employees working for the LTC in 1999, this number grew steadily to about 600 in 2006, 300 of whom worked full-time on Linux.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.zdnet.com/article/ibms-linux-contributions/|title = IBM's Linux contributions|website = [[ZDNet]]}}</ref>

Developers in the LTC contribute to various open-source projects such as [[Real-time computing|Realtime]], [[Serviceability (computer)|Serviceability]] (including Kdump[http://lse.sourceforge.net/kdump/] and [[SystemTap]] [http://sourceware.org/systemtap/]), [[Enterprise Volume Management System]] (EVMS), Virtualization (using the [[Xen]] [[hypervisor]]), [[Linux Test Project]] (LTP), [[Linux Standard Base]] (LSB) as well as projects focused on enabling Linux to use new hardware functions on IBM platforms.

In December 2000, IBM claimed to have invested approximately one billion US dollars in Linux by the year 2000, and to currently have about 1,500 developers working on the alternative operating system. It announced that it would invest a similar amount in 2001 and also build the largest Linux-based supercomputer for Royal Dutch/Shell Oil.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.cnet.com/news/ibm-to-spend-1-billion-on-linux-in-2001/|title=IBM to spend $1 billion on Linux in 2001}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.computerworld.com.au/article/72732/|title = IT news, careers, business technology, reviews}}</ref> While most of the money was invested in Linux development, some of it went into others, mainly [[AIX]].<ref name="Vaughan-Nichols"/> The following year, senior vice president Bill Zeitler claimed to have recouped most of this spending in the first year through the sale of software and systems.<ref name="Vaughan-Nichols">Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols: IBM and Linux – What’s really happening, https://www.linux.com/news/ibm-and-linux-whats-really-happening/</ref>

==Details==

LTC is a worldwide team spread across 38 locations in the world and contains more than 600 people.

Developers in the LTC contribute to various open-source projects such as:

* [[Kernel-based Virtual Machine]] (KVM) on x86 and Power systems, including Kimchi<ref>{{cite web|url=https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/project-kimchi |title=Google Discussiegroepen |access-date=2013-09-21}}</ref>

* [[Hadoop|Apache Hadoop]]

* [[OpenStack]]

* [[OpenPOWER Foundation]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424127887323420604578650412719931232 |title=IBM Gets Allies to Chip Away at Intel - WSJ.com |publisher=Online.wsj.com |date=2013-08-05 |access-date=2013-09-21}}</ref>

* [[GNU toolchain]]

* [[Open-source model|Open source]] standards

LTC is a worldwide team with main locations in Australia, Brazil, China, Germany, India, Israel, and the United States.{{citation needed |date=December 2023}}

==References==

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==External links==

* {{Official website |http://www.ibm.com/linux/ltc/}}{{dead link |date=December 2023}}

* Joe Barr, 2001: [https://www.itworld.com/article/2798967/ Inside IBM's Linux Technology Center]{{dead link |date=December 2023}}

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