[seul-edu] I.B.M. Helps Promote Linux

[Yishay Mor <y.mor@ioe.ac.uk>]

Linux is a rising star in the geeky back office of computing. Its gains 
have come as an operating system for the data-serving computers that run 
corporate networks and serve up Web pages. On the desktop, Microsoft's 
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Windows still reigns supreme.

But I.B.M. 
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and the Open Source Development Lab, whose membership includes 
Hewlett-Packard 
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Dell and Intel 
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are beginning a drive to promote Linux as an alternative to Windows on 
the desktop.

One indication of their more aggressive approach came yesterday when an 
I.B.M. executive, Samuel J. Docknevich, delivered a speech at a 
technology conference outside Boston titled "The Time Is Now for Linux 
on the Desktop."


http://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/11/technology/11blue.html?th

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