We've been following the recent news about IBM potentially buying Sun, and the internet had more or less accepted that big blue was going to be the new owners of Sun Microsystems. However, the omnipresent "people close to the matter" have told the New York Times that IBM has withdrawn its offer, and that the deal is now off.
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FYI, IBM does setup employees with Linux laptops running IBM software. This is called the IBM Open Client. There is a mainstream version that tracks with RHEL, at present version 5.3, as well as a Debian/Ubuntu Version built for Ubuntu 8.04/8.10 (Called OCDC--Open Client Debian Community). In the very near future IBMers will receive laptops that are dual boot out of the box. Right now an employee simply downloads the recovery disk to install Linux. Regarding Apple laptops, my intern uses an Apple Macbook Pro laptop provided by IBM.
I personally have 5 Linux machines at my desk at work and zero Windows machines. I run Lotus Notes, Lotus Sametime, Lotus Sametime 3D, SecondLife, OpenSimulator, Rational Software Architect, Eclipse, and Data Studio all on Linux.
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2006-05-19
Sun Suse? Suse is in bed with Microsoft so that isn't going to happen.