Linked by David Adams on Wed 6th Aug 2008 15:32 UTC
IBM 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: history is against MS
by lemur2 on Thu 7th Aug 2008 11:25 UTC in reply to "history is against MS"
lemur2
Member since:
2007-02-17

Must have software such as Photoshop and Autocad would be ported breaking the current lock-in.


Neither of those is must-have software.

The upcoming version of GIMP, which includes GEGL, brings GIMP up to feature parity with Photoshop.

http://www.piksel.no/60
http://www.linux.com/articles/57833
http://www.gegl.org/

There is any amount of CAD software for Linux, take your pick:
http://www.tech-edv.co.at/lunix/CADlinks.html
http://www.roseindia.net/linux/linux-cad-software.shtml
http://www.freelists.org/webpage/cad-linux

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RE[2]: history is against MS
by unclefester on Thu 7th Aug 2008 12:28 in reply to "RE: history is against MS"
unclefester Member since:
2007-01-13

Professionals don't want to change to another product when they have spend years mastering Photoshop or AutoCAD. Why try and save a few hundred dollars when it costs you $10,000 due to lost productivity?

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