>>> On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 2:43 AM, in message
<489A9974.4070603@perennialwisdom.com>, Khepri <khepri@perennialwisdom.com>
wrote:
> tom smith wrote:
>>
> http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/ibm-canonicalubuntu-novell-red-hat/story.as
> px?guid=%7BF6BECEDE-0833-4FA6-83D7-4EBA7A79337E%7D&dist=hppr
>> For the first time, IBM (IBM:International Business Machines and leading
> Linux
>> distributors Canonical/Ubuntu, Novell and Red Hat will join forces globally
> with
>> their hardware partners to deliver Microsoft-free personal computing choices
>> with Lotus Notes and Lotus Symphony in the one billion-unit desktop market
>> worldwide by 2009.
>> Citing shifting market forces and the growing demand for economical
> alternatives
>> to costly Windows and Office-based computers, the four leaders sense an ideal
>> set of circumstances allowing Linux-based desktops to proliferate in the
> coming
>> year. Linux is far more profitable for a PC vendor and the operating system
> is
>> better equipped to work with lower cost hardware than new Microsoft
> technology.
>>
>>
>
> :) Excellent. It'd be great if that effort trickled down to the home
> desktop market too...
>
> Curious, is Dell getting in on this?
>
> Khepri
Dell already has limited pre-loads of Ubuntu. This announcement really only means that IBM will add support of Ubuntu to the Lotus Suite. Canonical will sell Lotus through their online store.
JP
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