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Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
> __/ [ Mark Kent ] on Saturday 29 July 2006 09:58 \__
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>> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>>> Interview: Linux branching out, says IBM exec
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>>>| In an interview with IDG News Service, Adam Jollans, Linux strategy
>>>| manager for IBM Corp., discusses how he sees Linux adoption evolving
>>>| across vertical industries and in businesses both small and large, and
>>>| how IBM is adapting its own Linux strategy to mesh with those trends.
>>> `----
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>>> http://www.pcwelt.de/news/englishnews/ConsumerElectronics/133386/
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>> Note the words we see to describe how Linux fits - customisation (for
>> retail POS equipment), reliability for big business requirements. These
>> are both areas in which Linux/OSS excels.
>
> IBM's assistance to OSDL, as well as to GNU/Linux in
> general, is tremendous. Seeing the budgets they have
> allocated, I can't help but think of how much they help me
> whenever I do my work. In fact, I often think of stability
> and power in the context of those companies and developers
> that got it there through rigour, over the many years
> (OpenBSD, IBM, and maybe even Oracle).
>
> It's a long-term investment and, as Rex once said, it's like
> the bamboo which grows roots in preparation for massive
> growth. No wonder Microsoft invested half a billion dollars
> in the fight against IBM. Gates called IBM the "biggest
> threat to Microsoft". Not Google; not Open Source. But IBM
> indirectly helps both Google and the Open Source movement,
> from which everyone benefits, apart from Microsoft and its
> allies (even those partners and allies are marriage of
> convenience to Microsoft; until it eats them like a black
> widow).
>
I'm sure that there are still people in IBM who would not be unhappy to
see MS suffer in the same way that MS made IBM suffer in the mid 1990s.
I'm not saying that they'd build their strategy on that basis, merely
that they wouldn't lose any sleep if it happened to play out that way.
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