IBM, Canonical Switch Up Their Smart Work Game | Linux Today

IBM, Canonical Switch Up Their Smart Work Game

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Web Webster
Web Webster
Oct 21, 2009

“In the Sept. 24 announcement, both companies stressed this new
client would be initially offered in Africa, sold through local
service providers. Even the the cloud services, IBM hoped, would be
offered from local African providers, according the a September
interview with Bob Sutor. “‘The idea is really to drive local
partnerships around offering this,’ Sutor, IBM’s VP of open source
and Linux, told [Channel Register]. ‘So that doesn’t mean users be
sitting in Cape Town and connecting to a cloud somewhere in
Iowa.'”


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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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