More and more companies are optimizing their IT investment by running Linux applications on IBM Power Systems. Students with Linux on Power skills will expand their job and career opportunities worldwide.
Overview
Companies today are moving business critical solutions to the Linux operating system to reduce costs and increase flexibility, and they are looking for the same quality of service achieved with a proprietary UNIX operating system. Linux on IBM Power Systems (System p) provides the solution to this challenge with the self-healing and self-managing capabilities of IBM Power architecture.
Benefits
Our Power Systems: Linux program includes a worldwide community of schools, IBM technical experts, customers and
business partners. There are benefits for everyone:
- Educators can increase relationships with industry, develop new employment opportunities for their students, and get access to Power Systems courseware and training at no charge.
- Students can increase their job opportunities with new skills, participate in IBM Professional Certification exams, and advertise their talents in our IBM Student Opportunity System resume database.
- Employers can find students with the skills they need for internships and jobs by searching the IBM Student Opportunity System.
Power systems and Linux resources
We have a wide variety of resources to help you learn and teach Linux, including no-charge training and professionally developed courseware that you can use in the classroom. But, the best news is that we offer Academic Initiative members remote virtual access to the Power Systems environment (so that you don't have to install and maintain the systems) or significant discounts if do you choose to lease or buy.
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Check out these resources to learn more
Learn the basics
Linux content can easily be integrated into any curriculum or program at your school to each a variety of concepts. We have colleges and universities that have successfully enhanced their Computer Science, School of Business, or Information Systems programs with Linux concepts, resulting in students that are in high demand by our customers.
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Check out these resources to learn more
Get trained
Take advantage of our no-charge or discounted training opportunities and prepare yourself for teaching about Power Systems and Linux topics.
Online training
Linux tutorials: These free online tutorials from developerWorks cover a variety of Linux topics, for everyone from beginner to advanced developers. Take the tutorials immediately online, or download them to study at your leisure.
Instructor-led training
Academic Initiative members can request vouchers for many IBM instructor-led courses at no charge. Not all courses in our Course Catalog are available for Education Vouchers.
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Get started with these basic level classes
Certification opportunities
- Academic Initiative training and certification discounts: Academic Initiative members can request a 50% discount for themselves and their students on some IBM Professional Certification tests at Thompson Prometric Centers.
- All Linux training and certification: Explore our other training and certification opportunities.
