OSNews is Exploring the Future of Computing

Linked by David Adams on Wed 6th Aug 2008 15:32 UTC

After 10 years of supporting Linux, IBM continues to challenge Microsoft on multiple fronts and aims to push Linux even further into the enterprise. While IBM has competed and partnered with Microsoft over the last two decades, the Microsoft-free PC effort is perhaps its most direct assault yet. "The idea of Microsoft-free personal computing has been in the air for a while," Inna Kuznetsova, director of Linux at IBM, told InternetNews.com. "We're just partnering with Linux distribution vendors and hardware vendors to make it happen."

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RE[6]: Perhaps in the enterprise, but...

by jbauer on Wed 6th Aug 2008 23:18 UTC in reply to "RE[5]: Perhaps in the enterprise, but..."

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Or maybe we're facing a worldwide stockholm syndrome

Right. Mark Shuttleworth must be suffering from that too:

I think we don't yet deliver a good enough user experience. I think we deliver a user experience for people that have a reason to want to be on the Linux platform, either because of price or because of freedom. If that was your primary reason, Linux is the right answer.

But if you are somebody who is not too concerned about price, who is not too concerned about freedom, I don't think we can say the Linux desktop offers the very best experience

http://derstandard.at/PDA/?id=3413801

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