Hewlett Packard outlined its vision for the next-generation datacenter and it says it is dependent on Linux and the open source community. The Linux community will continue to be an important component as more companies embrace the concept said an HP executive at the LinuxWorld Conference and Expo on Wednesday. HP is committed to expanding and being an all-in-one solution for those businesses that are ready to e Hewlett Packard outlined its vision for the next-generation datacenter and it says it is dependent on Linux and the open source community. The Linux community will continue to be an important component as more companies embrace the concept said an HP executive at the LinuxWorld Conference and Expo on Wednesday.HP is committed to expanding and being an all-in-one solution for those businesses that are ready to embrace the combined services plus datacenter concept. HP’s next-generation strategy is to develop products and services that will offer datacenters a scalable, effective, reliable and fully automated virtual environment.The company announced new tools and programs to help its customers take further advantage of open source and Linux in their datacenters. The offerings include the open sourcing of the HP developed Parallel Compositing Library visualization software, which enables customers to leverage previously unused compute power to visualize complex data sets. They also added Xen and guest operating system support for Debian to its recently launched HP Partner Virtualization Program, and the company broadened its pay-per-use pricing offering with Linux running on HP Integrity servers. And if you didn’t think HP was serious about the Linux community factoring into their plans, the company stated that one-third of their servers currently being shipped are Linux-based, and that they ship a Linux server every minute. Software Development