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Linux desktops easier to install than expected
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| LAST WEEK, IBM released research which showed that Linux desktops were easier
| to implement than IT staff expected
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| That said, however, techies had to target the "right groups" of users, such
| as those who have moderate and predictable use of e-mail and office tools
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http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1137464/linux-desktops-easier-install-expected
IBM to invest in Vietnam
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| And where better than to make your dent in a newly developing economy than in
| its universities? IBM is doing just that by teaming up with the University of
| Technology in Ho Chi Minh City and the College of Technology in Hanoi, to tap
| young minds for free on subjects from cloud computing to service science
| research. The firm says university students can also help develop a local
| language version of IBM's Developerworks technical resource site while
| they're at it.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1137461/ibm-invest-vietnam
Recent:
Ballmer Still Searching for an Answer to Google
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| "Forty percent of servers run Windows, 60 percent run Linux," he said. "How
| are we doing? Forty is less than 60, so I don't like it. ... We have some
| work to do."
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http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/151568/ballmer_still_searching_for_an_answer_to_google.html
Related:
Microsoft to IBM: Tolerate PSI Mainframes or Quit Europe
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| If you think Microsoft has an aversion to Article 82 of the European Treaty,
| the anti-monopoly law that forced it to open some Windows server APIs and
| also to live with others' media players on desktops, think again. Microsoft
| is backing Platform Solutions (PSI) in an Article 82 action that could loosen
| IBM's grip on the mainframe. If PSI is given the keys to every glass house in
| Europe, Microsoft will be one of its principal guests. In fact, PSI could get
| more from IBM than it wanted when it first announced mainframe-compatible
| systems.Last November 27, PSI announced that it had raised more than $37
| million in additional capital, and that one of the companies in the deal was
| Microsoft. Other investors in PSI include Intel, Blueprint Ventures, Goldman
| Sachs, InterWest Partners, and InvestCorp.
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http://www.itjungle.com/big/big011508-story01.html
Enterprise Unix Roundup: EU vs. Microsoft vs. IBM
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| Over on IT Jungle, I just read an interesting story about how Microsoft is
| (by proxy) cleverly using the same law that was just smacked over its head
| for Windows market dominance against IBM's mainframe base in Europe.
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| The story, by Hesh Wiener, is a fascinating look into the world of
| litigation-as-business-strategy, and details the complaint filed by Platform
| Solutions (PSI) against IBM for violating Article 82 of the European
| Commission (EC) Treaty. The complaint was filed, according to a Dec. 18
| Reuters story, way back on Oct. 19.
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http://www.serverwatch.com/eur/article.php/3722066
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