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ConsultingTimes: Profiting from Open Source: How Equant Teams up with IBM on the Mainframe

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Sep 25, 2001

“Who says you can’t make money from Linux and open
source, even in tough times like these? Don’t tell that to Jimmy
Lee, Director of Professional Services at Equant, provider of the
world’s largest IP data communication network. Last week, in The
Great Server Heist, ConsultingTimes brought you Jimmy’s TCO
analysis on Intel vs. mainframe solutions. For this week, we
conducted an extensive interview in which Jimmy tell us why Equant
jumped on the Linux bandwagon, and where it is taking his
customers.”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

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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