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ZDNet: Ok, Who Got the Billion Dollars?

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Web Webster
Web Webster
Jun 7, 2005

“Away back in December of 2000 IBM’s Lou Gerstner announced that
IBM planned to spend a billion dollars on Linux. Great news then,
but where did it go? There’s no IBM Linux distribution, not many of
their nickels went to the people behind the key technologies IBM
relies on to make Linux work including Apache, mySQL, OpenOffice,
and SAMBA. Their web sites offer Red Hat Linux for $799 or more,
but I don’t see the new Fedora Foundation getting any part of that
billion bucks…”

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Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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