Thursday, March 9th, 2006, 7:44 pm
IBM: Linux Migration, Vista Reluctance
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Season of the playful penguins from Oyonale
ERELY anyone who follows the news will have come across this by now. A an intersting rumour, if not an announcement, gree legs and began running wildly. It came from IBM in Germany. It suggested that IBM would be moving to Linux rather than upgrade to Windows Vista. This initiated a storm in a teacup, but finally, IBM make a formal denial. Many questions still hang in the air.
Andreas Pleschek, IBM’s head of open source and Linux technical sales in Northern Europe, was widely misquoted this week as saying that IBM had cancelled its Windows contract with Microsoft as of October.
