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[3]: Now maybe....
by jabbotts on Thu 7th Aug 2008 17:05 UTC in reply to "RE[2]: Now maybe...."
jabbotts
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2007-09-06

They did, they charged an obsorbitant price for it so everyone stuck with existing but as capable alternatives. If they tried again, they would need to provide the quality and function set that justifies the license cost or re-evaluate pricing strategies.

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