“Initially, Motorola and IBM were working together with the
Somerset Design Center,” said Linley Gwennap, senior analyst for
The Microprocessor Report. “The two companies would compete with
each other,” Gwennap said. “That was always a weird
situation….”
“Both companies said they heartily stand behind the platform.
This is underscored by Apple’s continuing financial turnaround and
the Linux platform’s emergence as a viable and popular operating
system.”
“We do believe Linux offers some opportunity for PowerPC,”
Eames said. “IBM has always supported the PowerPC platform, now
more than ever. We never walked away from Apple. Our view is
that Apple is a very important customer to IBM and will continue to
be.”