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Despite the specter of The SCO Group's legal scuffle with IBM and Linux users, big players such as BEA Systems, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Sun Microsystems and Veritas Software will roll out products and services at this week's LinuxWorld Conference & Expo in San Francisco.

Mainframe Linux can boost application uptime and reduce support costs. But users and analysts recommend acting carefully when choosing which applications to move to the open-source operating system and when training staff in the required skills.

The improving scalability of Linux, the low cost and increasingly high power of Intel Corp. hardware, and the license-free nature of open source software could add up to big savings for large corporations looking to bolster their data centers.

IBM Corp. on Wednesday delivered the first self-managing, self-healing products that are part of its Project eLiza initiative, along with a new management service that monitors corporate IT systems around the clock providing real-time alerts of potential risks.

Hewlett-Packard Co. Tuesday took the wraps off a new 16-way, midrange server built around the company's own flavor of the Unix operating system.

Tivoli Systems has upgraded its security software to better control access to applications and data for users of its WebSphere and MQSeries packages.