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'Microsoft-free' virtual desktop startup gets $4m funding
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| A start-up teaming up with IBM to build
| "Microsoft-free" virtual desktops and deliver
| them through a cloud computing model has
| secured $4 million in first-round venture
| financing.
|
| Virtual Bridges, founded in 2006, is part of
| IBM's attempt to undercut Microsoft's Windows
| 7 with a set of cloud - and Linux-based
| desktop packages.
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http://news.techworld.com/virtualisation/3210826/microsoft-free-virtual-desktop-startup-gets-4m-funding/
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Why is IBM Promoting Ubuntu at the Young Scientist Exhibition
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| A few people have been asking why IBM is
| promoting Ubuntu at the Young Scientist
| Exhibition when it is not an IBM product.
| In fact there are a number of good reasons:
|
| 1. IBM supports the concept of freedom
| and we would hate to think that students
| (or anyone) would feel locked in to
| using a particular brand of proprietary
| software just because it came with the
| PC when they bought it. Click here to
| view Bob Stutor explain in detail why
| IBM cares about software freedom.
|
| 2. Ubuntu provides an excellent quality
| stable desktop operating system for
| free, so we donât want to see people
| wasting valuable money on purchasing
| licenses for software when they donât
| have to
|
| 3. We think that Ubuntu is cool and we
| think that the students attending the
| exhibition will agree when they see for
| themselves.
|
| 4. IBM employees use Ubuntu internally
| for their work and IBM also partners
| with a Canonical and Verde to provide
| the Ubuntu based IBM Client for Smart
| Work.
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http://ibm4btyse.wordpress.com/2009/12/26/why-is-ibm-promoting-ubuntu-at-the-young-scientist-exhibition-4/
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