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IBM's Ubuntu deal favors the server
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| Ubuntu is the latest Linux disro to fall under the loving gaze of systems
| giant IBM, in its endless march to unseat Microsoft from business desktops
| and servers.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/08/05/ibm_ubuntu/
IBM gets hip with 'cool' Ubuntu PC deal
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| Ubuntu is, according to the suits at IBM, "a Linux operating system that
| scores high marks on usability and 'the cool factor.'"
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/08/05/ubuntu_ibm_linux_distros/
Lotus is Proprietary. Businesses are better off with default distros that have
OOo.
IBM targets Microsoft with desktop Linux initiative
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| During a press briefing at LinuxWorld today in San Francisco, IBM announced a
| new partnership with Red Hat, Novell, and Canonical to offer "Microsoft-free"
| personal computers with IBM's Lotus Notes and Lotus Symphony software. The
| goal is to provide a preintegrated stack that can serve as a complete
| alternative to Windows and Microsoft Office.
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http://arstechnica.com/journals/linux.ars/2008/08/05/ibm-targets-microsoft-with-desktop-linux-initiative
http://tinyurl.com/6lktdy
The press release:
IBM, Canonical/Ubuntu, Novell, Red Hat to Deliver Microsoft-Free Desktops
Worldwide
http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/ibm-canonicalubuntu-novell-red-hat/story.aspx?guid=%7BF6BECEDE-0833-4FA6-83D7-4EBA7A79337E%7D&dist=hppr
http://tinyurl.com/6cbhsg
Recent:
Feeling the heat at Microsoft
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| If I ask you who is Microsoft's biggest competitor now, who would it be?
|
| Ballmer: Open...Linux. I don't want to say open source. Linux, certainly have
| to go with that.
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http://www.news.com/Feeling-the-heat-at-Microsoft/2008-1012_3-6232458.html?tag=ne.fd.mnbc
Related:
Notebook: IBM’s Linux desktop installs; Notes evolution; Data center stats
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| Just for context IBM doesn’t have any specific policy on Linux desktop
| adoption and no quota or deadline to migrate more users. Walicki noted that
| IBM has a role-based PC policy. The data center folks and firmware people
| will use Linux. Your average cubicle dweller has a choice of Windows or
| Linux.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=7386
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
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
| ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
| 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
Life after Windows, Day 24
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| Not much to report of late on my experience after giving up Windows XP cold
| turkey. I’m using the IBM Open Client for Linux on Red Hat RHEL 5.1 and it
| all pretty much works. I haven’t used Windows at all for any reason in over
| three weeks, though I’ve been tempted to go back as a tourist and reminisce.
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http://www.sutor.com/newsite/blog-open/?p=2186
Life after Windows, Day 1
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| This last weekend I wiped the second half of the laptop hard drive and
| installed the IBM internal Open Client for Linux. It has everything I need
| for work: Lotus Notes, Lotus Symphony, Lotus SameTime, and a couple of ways
| to get through the firewall. The Windows partition remains on the machine,
| for now, but I plan to live on the Red Hat Linux client as best I can (see
| below).
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http://www.sutor.com/newsite/blog-open/?p=2105
IBM fills PCs with eastern promise
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| Microsoft has long been striving for some love from Russia, by vying for
| contracts with established institutions and teaching IT in schools. But IBM’s
| move, which cheaply outsources manufacturing, is now offering the massive and
| developing Eastern market, an open source alternative.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/03/11/kgb-eliminates-vole
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