[ Thanks to Budd
Gardner for this link. ]
“IBM, the most traditional of technology companies, is
betting that the decidedly non-traditional Linux software system
can give it an edge in the market for computers that carry out the
most mainstream and strenuous business workloads. “Linux is
ready for real business.” International Business Machines Corp.
(IBM) President and Chief Operating Officer Sam Palmisano said
during a speech at LinuxWorld Expo…”
“The world’s largest computer maker has embraced the alternative
operating system, which was developed by legions of programmers in
a grass-roots movement, as part of a long-term strategy to turn the
tables on its rival Sun Microsystems Inc. “We believe in the
first-mover advantage,” Palmisano told Reuters on Wednesday. “It’s
been proven in our industry that you get ahead of the trends and
not behind them.”
“You can view IBM as a reformed alcoholic here,” he added,
referring to IBM having been behind on a distributed, networked
computing model known as client-server that undercut the
centralized computing of mainframe computers. “We were behind on
client-server, we weren’t behind on the Internet, we’re not behind
on Linux,” Palmisano said.”