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UpsideToday: TurboLinux Plants Flag in RedHat Country

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Jun 23, 1999

Thanks to Anonymous for this
link.

“When IBM Corp. announced a partnership with Brisbane,
Calif.-based TurboLinux Inc. last month, it came as a bit of a
surprise to some Linux-watchers.”

“Why would IBM choose this relatively little-known distribution
over more obvious candidates like Red Hat, SuSE or Debian?” queried
one curious poster…”

“… one person who thinks he knows the answer is Lonn Johnston,
vice president of North American operations for TurboLinux.”

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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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