“IBM Chairman and CEO Louis Gerstner may be trying to spread
the Linux gospel, but some IBM business partners aren’t buying the
sermon.“
“Solution providers attending an IBM conference on supply chain
and enterprise applications last week said Unix and other operating
systems are still more suited to their customers.”
“Linux is not in the cards for us,” says Rick Baldwin, vice
president of sales and marketing at iSeries integrator Mincron
Software Systems, Houston, echoing the reaction of other IBM
partners at the company’s link_2001 conference here.”