Guarino said Greenberg sent the memo to fewer than 14 people, and was merely trying to motivate his team to get aggressive about testing Linux-based applications that could prove useful for the company and its customers.
Greenberg's memo lumped the Linux work with an IBM-wide effort to incorporate "on demand" computing, a project Big Blue also is pushing to customers.
Among other things, it involves integrating diverse internal computing applications into a common framework.
"These are ambitious projects that cut through all of our company and extend deeply into our external messages," the memo concludes "I look forward to your strong support and participation."
Unlike the proprietary Windows operating systems, whose software blueprints Microsoft closely guards as a trade secret, Linux's core instructions are public and freely available.
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