No less inevitable than digital movie theaters is a Linux infrastructure to make them efficient, reliable and easy to manage. That's why Eastman Kodak has engaged IBM to help develop and deploy the new Kodak Digital Cinema Operating System (COS). "This is the infrastructure cinemas will need to take full advantage of the promise and potential of digital cinema", Kodak says. The new COS will support preparing, protecting, storing, managing, distributing, and projecting digital images on movie screens. It's being designed so non-technical operators can manage even the many screens showing movies simultaneously in a multiplex theater.