Posted on 02/18/2005 8:59:07 PM PST by Next_Time_NJ
IBM is backing up its ardent advocacy of Linux with cold hard cash. Over the next three years, Big Blue will invest a total of $100 million USD to broaden the use of Linux technologies within its Workplace product family and assist customers in constructing end-to-end Linux-based solutions that fit a variety of devices.
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Why are you posting this during Black History Month? Do you have issues? You could have waited until Cinco de Mayo, you know.
I have nothing to add, just wanted to get on the thread early!
Ok thats a pancake reply are you on the right thread? im confused.
I enjoy grilled cheese sandwiches from time to time, but I wouldn't want to drive very far to get one.
Does that clear it up?
Learn mainframe I.B.M. and Linux....sounds good to me....
choppy GUI?!!mash here http://www.linspire.com/ a slick distro.
Ever try a moose lip omlet?
NT cost Microsoft billions. This is pocket change.
Why isn't IBM running Linux internally, if it's so great? The impression that's left is it's good for IBM's consulting business, but not for their own internal operations.
What's an omlet? A short mantra?
Okay, I left an e out of omelet. Sue me.
I'm filing the paperwork with the court now.
I have linspire its horrid...... The only thing i like is the Warehouse option that installs the programs automaticly, but other then that if you have no knownledge of linux and want to install a driver.. your in computer hell.
Politics.... if IBM needs to run a free open source OS in the company.. they would think the company is broke... Also, most people understand how to use windows.. its much easier to grasp and more cost effective to send them 2 classes to understand windows if they dont already.
Linux takes much long to learn even with simple command line knownledge.
Ugh.. think.. use that brain.. Microsoft made NT thats why it cost so much.. Linux is been around for ever, plus is open source.. so combine 100 million, with the open source community on a program thats already made.. and that is much more effective..
I'm sure it is MUCH more effective. IBM has gotten over "owning" the technology and is focusing on making money through services.
Microsoft fundamantally has no response to this new business model. In fact, the trend at Microsoft is still in the wrong direction. It probably took less than $200M to make Win98, which really put MS into the game. It took much more than that to marry Win98's ease of use and plug-and-play with NT, which was, until XP, an expensive white elephant.
Longhorn is hugely expensive and late, and the main "feature" is that it will protect music and video publishers more effectively. Yeah, that's putting the customer first. Meanwhile, desktop Linux, and desktop Java apps based on SWTs and JFace are coming.
Uh.. IBM is trying. But it's not going well.
And that may be a plus, eventually. If Sam is really serious about getting away from the Microsoft infrastructure, he's going to have to throw some serious resources at the effort.
With all of the developers at IGS, they could do it, but the EOY-05 target is a little unrealistic, IMHO. It took at least 5 years to get the knowlege workers migrated from PROFS on VM/CMS over to Lotus Notes, and I know that the IGS employees still need a VM account to do certain things. And their trouble ticket system definitely requires IE.
Once they get Notes ported over to Linux (and I've been waiting for that event for years) they can migrate a lot of the web infrastructure to Domino on AIX. Stand-alone apps like Labor Claiming can be rewritten case-by-case. But there are still the ancillary tools like Word, Excel and especially Microsoft Project -- the latter already on a restricted number of seats -- and IBM will not develop alternatives for these but might write some connectors to the open-source tools.
It will take a while, no joke, but if IBM is really serious about it and can overcome the internal inertia, there's gonna be a lot of neat stuff in future distros.
Oh he's serious about it all right. He's just finding the going a lot more tougher than he wants everyone to believe. Which is why everyone should take IBM's linux recommendations with a grain of salt. If they can't fix it for themselves, who else in the world could.
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