[ Thanks to Jason
Greenwood for these links. ]
The Register: Open Source Not Ready for Desktop, IBM Told UK
Government
“The UK government has a ‘level playing field’ policy for use of
Open Source Software, but although it is supposed to be considering
“OSS solutions alongside proprietary ones in IT procurements”, this
does not seem to have produced much in the way of significant
deployments or contracts. And who is to blame for this apparent
lack of movement? A smoking pistol placed before a Parliamentary
Committee last week seemed to implicate that well-known partisan of
Open Source Software IBM…”
ZDnet: IBM Warms to Desktop Linux
“IBM’s other Linux shoe could drop Monday, as Big Blue is
expected to endorse the idea of Linux on desktop computers at a
conference.“Big Blue has heavily promoted the open-source operating system
for use on servers, but Sam Docknevich of IBM’s Global Services
group plans to discuss how Linux’s popularity now has spilled over
into the desktop market, according to the agenda for the Desktop
Linux Conference in Boston…”