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[News] Ubuntu in New Collaboration with IBM

  • Subject: [News] Ubuntu in New Collaboration with IBM
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2008 00:24:31 +0000
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: Netscape / schestowitz.com
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Canonical partners with IBM for closed source database

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| Here’s an interesting bit of news from the blurred line between open and 
| closed source software. Ubuntu sponsor Canonical has announced that it is 
| reselling IBM’s DB2 Express-C database as both a standalone software package 
| and as a software appliance with VMware. While Express-C is free as in beer, 
| it is not free as in speech. Of course, if you want support it is not free at 
| all.     
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http://blogs.the451group.com/opensource/2008/02/21/canonical-partners-with-ibm-for-closed-source-database/


Related and recent:

Lotus Notes 8.5 to fully support Ubuntu Linux 7.0 in mid-2008

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| "We're doing pilots with customers now," Satyadas said. "Some of the requests 
| came from big companies" with as many as 100,000 users that are interested in 
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| moving to Ubuntu Linux on the desktop.  
| 
| [...]
| 
| "Linux is cool now," he said. "We use it ourselves. We are able to offer a 
| secure, rich and cost-effective Microsoft alternative." 
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http://computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&taxonomyName=hardware&articleId=9058900&taxonomyId=12&intsrc=kc_top

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