Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 13th Feb 2007 16:24 UTC, submitted by Dale Smoker
IBM has announced an open-source desktop, running Lotus apps and Firefox on top of Red Hat or SUSE Linux. It's based on an internal project which has deployed Linux desktops to several thousand IBM staff, in what IBM said was one of the largest corporate Linux roll-outs to date. It added that its Open Client Solution can also take in Windows and Mac users, as there's Lotus software for those as well - although it admits that the Mac version of Notes 8 isn't due until later this year.
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It's based on an internal project which has deployed Linux desktops to several thousand IBM staff, in what IBM said was one of the largest corporate Linux roll-outs to date
I work for IBM for 9 months and I work for a Unix support team. Some of my mates requested that they have Linux installed as desktop. The request was placed almost 1 1/2 years ago and nothing happened yet.
Yes, we downloaded the iso and installed it on VMWare, but we don't have it running on our workstations yet.
So, I don't know really if it's about thousands of IBM staff.