<p>NEW ORLEANS - IBM famously announced in 1999 that it was going to invest $1 billion in Linux.</p><p>Today at the LinuxCon conference, IBM announced that it is investing another billion dollars in Linux, but this time its aims are significantly more narrow than they were in 1999. Instead of investing in Linux as a whole, IBM's new investment is specifically targeted at Linux on IBM's Power server architecture.</p><p>IBM's Power Server architecture has been struggling in the marketplace. IBM's first quarter results in April revealed that Power revenues were down by 31 percent. At the time, IBM CFO Mark Loughridge said that Linux would be the way forward for Power, and it's a strategy that IBM has been rolling out ever since.</p><p>In May, IBM announced a new effort to encourage Linux on Power in China. That effort involves a Power Systems Linux Center, located inside of IBM's China Systems Center in Beijing. In July, IBM announced a new PowerLinux 7R4 4-socket, 32-core system.</p><p><a href="http://www.serverwatch.com/server-news/ibm-pledges-1-billion-for-linux-on-power.html">Keep reading...</a></p>