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:Techworld: IBM Plays Down Linux Desktop Plans
Techworld: IBM Plays Down Linux Desktop Plans
Jan 25, 2005, 16 :00 UTC (14 Talkback[s]) (8901 reads)

(Other stories by Robert McMillan)

"More than a year after IBM CEO and chairman Sam Palmisano challenged his company to move to the Linux desktop by the end of 2005, IBM has significantly toned down its rhetoric on the subject of open source clients.

"'We don't have anything we want to say that's definitive,' said Nancy Kaplan, an IBM spokeswoman, as she declined to comment on specifics of the roll-out. 'There are people using Linux and nobody is telling them to stop,' she said..."

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I read the article, The IBM employees qu ...   What now??? Implied backpeddling?&   
JaseP
Jan 25, 2005, 16:23:55
 
> I read the article, The IBM employees  ...   Re: What now??? Implied backpeddling&#   
GH
Jan 25, 2005, 16:57:21
 
A more accurate headline would be: IBM L ...   IBM Linux desktop plans in motion   
hey
Jan 25, 2005, 17:37:54
 
> The majority of IBM's Linux users  ...   *tecccchworld.com* 8-)   
R.L.
Jan 25, 2005, 18:01:23
 
It sounds like IBM is taking a page out  ...   Just good business   
phil
Jan 25, 2005, 18:11:35
 
Funny, the article states the transition ...   Halfway...   
scott_R
Jan 25, 2005, 18:27:58
 
It sounded to me like they were experien ...   Lock-In   
Donald A. Sime
Jan 25, 2005, 19:13:42
 
"Most of those [web] applications are wr ...   IBM doesn't believe in open source. IBM belie   
cool guy
Jan 25, 2005, 19:45:56
 
Inertia n*er"ti*a, n.1. (Physics) That p ...   Inertia   
Joe User
Jan 25, 2005, 20:36:10
 
I am working on a large project in IBM r ...   Ha, thats funny.   
Anonymous IBMer
Jan 25, 2005, 21:17:02
 
> IBM, like most companies, has a lot of ...   Re: Inertia   
George George
Jan 25, 2005, 23:34:54
 
> I am working on a large project in IBM ...   Re: Ha, thats funny.   
George George
Jan 25, 2005, 23:36:14
 
> IBM doesn't believe in open source ...   Re: IBM doesn't believe in open source. IBM b   
acyberpunk
Jan 26, 2005, 03:46:17
 
> Ideas: Like the IRC help line. I’d bet ...   Re: Lock-In   
Rufus Polson
Jan 26, 2005, 06:38:24
 
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