AT&T Joins the Linux Foundation as a Platinum Member

Luigys Toro

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We are pleased to announce that the telecommunications giant AT&T, joins the Linux Foundation as a member Platinum. This organization joins the highest category of members of the foundation, where it shares a place with companies such as IBM, Microsoft, Huawei among others.

The company is committed to open source for the transformation of all the software necessary for its operations, which is why they have decided to join the Foundation, providing a strong monetary contribution in addition to technological contributions and their experience in the area of ​​telecommunications.

In a statement made by the AT&T company in the hands of its Vice President, it is recognized that open source communities are critical to accelerating innovation in any organization. Likewise, they say they are delighted to be working with the Linux Foundation and its members to promote a globally accepted platform for SDN.

New structure of the Linux Foundation

From today the Platinum members of the Linux Foundation become 12, made up of: Cisco, Huawei, Fujitsu Ltd., Hewlett-Packard Development Co. L.P., Intel Corp., IBM Corp., NEC Corp, Oracle Corp., Qualcomm Innovation Center Inc., Samsung Electronics Co.Ltd, Microsoft Corp. and newcomer AT&T.

The person in charge of AT&T to form the board of directors will be Chris rice, vice president of AT&T labs and president of the open network automation platform.

With the incorporation of AT&T, a new path is opened for open source technologies that are related to telecommunications, in the same way, the release of some technological solutions by the company is expected.

It will dawn and we will see what advances the incorporation of this important organization will bring to the Linux kernel, always hoping that the most benefited are the users and the entire environment related to open source tools.


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  1.   Héctor Alvarez said
    ago 7 years

    If Oracle is part of the Linux Foundation. Why not release the kernel source code for the version of Unix you have, which is Solaris?

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  2.   Gonzalo Martinez said
    ago 7 years

    To talk about solaris and linux is to mix potatoes and sweet potatoes.

    You are a member to contribute to the linux kernel, not to release its products. They are two completely different things.

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  3.   Gonzalo Martinez said
    ago 7 years

    Also the article is about at & t, what does oracle have to do with it?

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  4.   Anonymous said
    ago 7 years

    Hmm ... potatoes with sweet potatoes ...

    : )

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