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IBM to Invest $1 Billion into Linux

Posted by Saint on Tuesday December 12, 2000 @ 10:37 PM
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Zdnet is reporting on IBM's announcement that the company will be investing $1 Billion dollars in Linux for 2001. The article quotes IBM CEO Lou Gestner as saying "We're convinced Linux can do for business applications what the Internet did for enterprise applications...Sun, Microsoft and EMC are running the last proprietary plays of this business...An increasing number of customers will buy IT as a utility -- like a service over the Web..." Digg this article

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Re: IBM to Invest $1 Billion into Linux
by Andrew P. Ho on Wednesday December 13, 2000 @ 06:31 AM

How do we get a piece of the action? That's what I like to know.

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Re: IBM to Invest $1 Billion into Linux
by Markus on Wednesday December 20, 2000 @ 03:05 AM

hmmmm. If I read the tone of the article correctly it looks like most of this money is going into development for proprietary IBM products, as opposed to open source initiatives.

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Re: IBM to Invest $1 Billion into Linux
by Saint on Wednesday December 20, 2000 @ 03:17 AM

I think you are right. Converting their entire software product line to run on Linux. -- Saint

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