IBM and Linux (A) Case Solution
The member of IBM’s emerging technologies as well as the business team, Dan Frye put efforts in deciding whether to make a strategic alliance with LDC. Merely two years earlier, IBM had its first exposure to an "open source" software program when it selected Apache as the web server program for the web site of the Atlanta Summer Olympic Games.
Based on its success with Apache, and Frye's intuition that Linux could be a vital, strategic step in the new "network-centric" computing environment, Frye and his co-workers are attempting to determine whether an alliance between IBM and LDC would serve their interests--and, if so, how IBM could handle the coalition with a loosely affiliated group of software developers.
This is just an excerpt. This case is about STRATEGY & EXECUTION
PUBLICATION DATE: June 26, 2003
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