Brazilian developer becomes the new maintainer of the Linux Kernel, Nov 14, 2001

Marcelo Tosatti, 18 years of age and a developer at Conectiva, was chosen by Linus Torvalds and Alan Cox to be the new maintainer of the Linux kernel. Beginning at the end of November, he well occupy this position in place of Cox, the current maintainer.

IBM's view of Linux is smart. The 'development agenda' is set around new markets that IBM is eager to move into. For instance, Frye says that the majority of new web applications and e-commerce sites run on Linux. In this particular instance, IBM stands to gain substantially by the increased sales of its WebSphere application server product and DB2 database. By fine tuning the operating system and stimulating community development, IBM can confidently offer Linux as the third prong in a WebSphere, DB2 solution.

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