Star IBM Not To Use Vista - But Will Move to Linux Desktops
Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 7th Mar 2006 21:20 UTC, submitted by John Mills
IBM 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."
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I think is time
by lucabotti on Tue 7th Mar 2006 22:01 UTC
lucabotti
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2006-01-03

This time, can be done. Windows Vista will not be happy on the average lenovo / thinkpad notebook (T43) of adopted for IBM people. And Linux on Desktop / Laptop begins to be an option even for non geeks (like, Gentoo and Linux user #379747).

This comes like a new one, but should be expected. The alternative is finally here. Who knows about the office suite?

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RE: I think is time
by asharism on Wed 8th Mar 2006 03:25 in reply to "I think is time"
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2005-06-30

This time, can be done. Windows Vista will not be happy on the average lenovo / thinkpad notebook (T43) of adopted for IBM people.

Technically, Lenovo is different from IBM and the thinkpad notebook is a Lenovo and not an IBM product. So the consumer laptops and the desktops might just have Vista rather than any distro of linux.

Haven't RTFA, but my guess is that this might by only for the emplyees' and the corporate desktop used internally at IBM.

Any thoughts?

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