An open agenda
- Article 12 of 16
- LinuxUser & Developer, April 2006
Unisys thinks it's the ideal company to sell open source to the enterprise. Rob Buckley talks to its head of enterprise Linux to find out why
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From the engineering side, our engineering depth and breadth of contributions to open source and Linux over the years will put us in good stead. We’re able to deliver that as a service to customers because we’re prepared to put engineering resource in specific projects.
I guess the other area is the full certification. Although other organisations claim do some of it, no organisation puts its arms around the whole lot and says it’s doing all of it. Our efforts around certification support and revision management – of all of that will help customers to make that first step and take away that risk for them.
About Hans Sparkes
Hans Sparkes, Unisys’s head of enterprise Linux in Europe, the Middle East and Africa, has been responsible for developing and growing the company’s enterprise Linux business in the region since the launch of its global Linux strategy in August 2004. Prior to Unisys, Hans held several development and marketing positions in organisations including Data General, Mitsubishi and ICL. He joined Unisys in 1999.
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