Computerworld New Zealand: Linux a Lovely Little Earner for IBM

“IBM’s business built around Linux was worth US$16 billion
[€13.3 billion] last year and is projected to be worth more
than US$50 billion [€41.5 billion], says the company’s global
head of public sector Linux sales, Mary Ann Fisher.

“‘Governments worldwide are spending more than US$3 billion
[€ 2.5 billion] a year on Linux hardware, software and
services, and this is growing at 35% a year,’ she says. ‘But it’s
the US military that is spending the most. They view it as a source
of innovation…'”

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