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Linux on the desktop at IBM

Spotted on Slashdot, IBM’s Open Source Desktop—Directions for today... and Tomorrow presentation includes one slide that really caught my attention:

To continue our own journey to becoming an on demand business, IBM expects to migrate our internal desktop environment, where appropriate, to open standards based on the Linux platform.

Of course, depending on how they define “appropriate” this could be a lot less exciting than it looks. Still, it’s a pretty huge boost for the Linux desktop movement.

Posted 16th November 2003 at 12:41 am

This is Linux on the desktop at IBM by Simon Willison, posted on 16th November 2003.

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  1. I think you'll find that current 'where suitable' indicates where they are able to drop in Linux thin-clients. While there is support for Linux on the desktop at ground level in IBM, the powers-that-be take a little more convincing. However, this is a step in the right direction.

    Ben Thorp - 18th November 2003 14:42 - #

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