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DAILY NEWS AND INFORMATION FOR THE GLOBAL GRID COMMUNITY / JULY 14, 2003; VOL. 2 NO. 28

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Eight Companies Form Linux Alliance

The Mercury News has reported that Japanese electronics giant Sony and seven other companies are banding together to make software and gadgets based on Linux, a competing and free operating system.

The group to promote Linux includes five other Japanese companies -- Matsushita Electric Industrial, which makes the Panasonic brand; Hitachi; NEC; Sharp; and Toshiba, as well as Royal Philips Electronics of the Netherlands and Samsung Electronics of South Korea.

IBM will be joining the group, the companies said in a statement.

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