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IBM will not use Windows Vista - but will move to Linux desktops
NeoSeeker ^ | March 6th, 2006 | William Henning

Posted on 03/08/2006 10:00:30 AM PST by zeugma

IBM switching to Linux destops in Germany according to a Linux Forum 2006 presentation by their head of open source and Linux sales in Germany.

Interesting news from LinuxForum 2006

During a presentation on IBM's involvement with Open Source, Andreas Pleschek from IBM in Stuttgart, Germany, who heads open source and Linux technical sales across North East Europe for IBM made a very interesting statement...

"Andreas Pleschek also told that IBM has cancelled their contract with Microsoft as of October this year. That means that IBM will not use Windows Vista for their desktops. Beginning from July, IBM employees will begin using IBM Workplace on their new, Red Hat-based platform. Not all at once - some will keep using their present Windows versions for a while. But none will upgrade to Vista."

The question is, does this only apply to IBM in Germany, or IBM world wide?

If ALL of IBM switches to Linux desktops and OpenOffice... that would be a very significant loss to Microsoft; not only in direct licensing revenues, but also in speeding adoption of Linux by other companies. After all, if IBM can run on Linux desktops...

 


TOPICS: Computers/Internet
KEYWORDS: desktop; gebait; ibm; linux; microsoft; vista
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To: Doohickey

Well if you want to ignore the fact MS is cutting key components from Vista because they cant make them work, yet blame the constant delay on customers I guess Ill see you on another thread, have a niec day..


61 posted on 03/09/2006 7:27:18 AM PST by N3WBI3 (If SCO wants to go fishing they should buy a permit and find a lake like the rest of us..)
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To: Doohickey
>This is the second (or third?) time IBM has tried this. *yawn*

IBM will sell
whatever customers want.
They are a business.

If folks had wanted
the NeXT OS, IBM
would still market that!

62 posted on 03/09/2006 7:34:34 AM PST by theFIRMbss
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To: N3WBI3

Can you add me to the OSS Ping List?

Thanks so much!!


63 posted on 03/09/2006 7:35:56 AM PST by CT-Freeper (Said the perpetually dejected Mets fan.)
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To: Westlander
Asking GE for Linux advice is like asking Ted Kennedy for driving advice...

If you want to see if Linux is for you there are pleany of 'live cd' which means you stick the CD in, boot the computer and play around if you have major issues with hardware or hate the look and feel of Linux just reboot the box, take the CD out, and youre back at windows..

64 posted on 03/09/2006 7:37:12 AM PST by N3WBI3 (If SCO wants to go fishing they should buy a permit and find a lake like the rest of us..)
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To: antiRepublicrat
This thread, where you said Vista had not slipped and is in line with Microsoft's "Five Year Plan"

DUDE THAT'S NOT EVEN MY POST!

COULD YOU BE ANY MORE BLIND? OR IS IT JUST IGNORANCE?

65 posted on 03/09/2006 8:07:29 AM PST by Golden Eagle
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To: Golden Eagle; Halfmanhalfamazing
DUDE THAT'S NOT EVEN MY POST

Absolutely correct. My statement was false. Congratulations, you've proven that you can go back to review a post. You ignore when it's validly pointed out that you are wrong, and it appears a false accusation actually gets a reply that sticks to the subject.

Now as to the issue you ignored of libel against Halfmanhalfamazing in YOUR Dell post.

66 posted on 03/09/2006 8:22:24 AM PST by antiRepublicrat
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To: Golden Eagle

Why are you flipping out? You attributed a whole thread to me that I did not post just the other day...


67 posted on 03/09/2006 9:26:22 AM PST by N3WBI3 (If SCO wants to go fishing they should buy a permit and find a lake like the rest of us..)
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To: N3WBI3
>Why are you flipping out?

Could their ever be
a thread that mentions Linux
that doesn't flip out?!

68 posted on 03/09/2006 12:14:06 PM PST by theFIRMbss
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To: theFIRMbss

Point Taken


69 posted on 03/09/2006 12:20:05 PM PST by N3WBI3 (If SCO wants to go fishing they should buy a permit and find a lake like the rest of us..)
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To: antiRepublicrat

I'm not libeling anyone, just pointing out that halfman has admitted on another website he is interested in coluding with zealots and recruiting people to "the cause". If you don't think that makes him a free software freak, that's your opinion, but like most of them, it's obviously wrong.


70 posted on 03/09/2006 1:04:00 PM PST by Golden Eagle
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To: amigatec

Not too sure i could use that. i'm not running VMWare.


71 posted on 03/09/2006 2:39:20 PM PST by Calvinist_Dark_Lord (I have come here to kick @$$ and chew bubblegum...and I'm all outta bubblegum! ~Roddy Piper)
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To: Golden Eagle

^^^^^^^^^^^^^just pointing out that halfman has admitted on another website he is interested in coluding with zealots and recruiting people to "the cause".^^^^^^^^^^^^

I collude with zealots frequently. Like you for example. I like capitalism very much, as no other system works as well as it does for as long.

The evils of communism are obvious. As long as I'm as pro-capitalism as I am, I will forever be colluding with a zealot. Namely you.

I await you to take this post out of context. I wrote the first five words the way I did on purpose.


72 posted on 03/09/2006 4:17:50 PM PST by Halfmanhalfamazing (Linux, the #2 OS. Mac, the #3 OS. Apple's own numbers are hard to argue with.)
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To: Calvinist_Dark_Lord
IPCop uses it's own PC. I have mine on an old P166. It turns a old PC into a stand-alone firewall.
73 posted on 03/09/2006 4:41:53 PM PST by amigatec (There are no significant bugs in our software... Maybe you're not using it properly.- Bill Gates)
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To: Halfmanhalfamazing; Golden Eagle
The evils of communism are obvious. As long as I'm as pro-capitalism as I am, I will forever be colluding with a zealot. Namely you.

For Every Richard Stahlman out there, there is an UberCapitalist Eric Raymond, who certainly (as a fanatical Libertarian ) does not under any circumstances fit GE's Open Source=Communist/Socialist mold.

74 posted on 03/09/2006 9:57:05 PM PST by Calvinist_Dark_Lord (I have come here to kick @$$ and chew bubblegum...and I'm all outta bubblegum! ~Roddy Piper)
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To: Westlander

mash here, Westlander...http://www.linspire.com/


75 posted on 04/05/2006 6:30:56 PM PDT by mo
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