IBM to offer Linux machines
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| The machines, it was announced, will come with Red Hat's Linux distro, and
| will come pre-loaded with software from IBM, including its Lotus Symphony
| suite.
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http://www.pcretailmag.com/news/29500/IBM-to-offer-Linux-machines
IBM, allies offer Microsoft-free PCs for E.Europe
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| International Business Machines Corp (IBM.N: Quote, Profile, Research) said
| it was offering the PCs based on the open-source Linux operating system
| together with Red Hat (RHT.N: Quote, Profile, Research) software distributor
| VDEL of Austria and Polish distributor and services firm LX Polska in
| response to demand from Russian IT chiefs.
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http://www.reuters.com/article/marketsNews/idINL0486847020080304?rpc=44
Excellent. Next step: FOSS?
Related:
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.
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| [...]
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| "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
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/
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