Reuters: IBM and Sage to Bring Linux to Small Businesses

Apr 24, 2002, 16:00 (13 Talkback[s])
(Other stories by Lucas Van Grinsven)

LONDON (Reuters) - International Business Machines Corp and Britain's business software maker Sage Group Plc announced on Tuesday they will offer the Linux operating system to medium-sized businesses around the globe.

"IBM said this would be the first time that open source Linux software has been offered to run business applications at smaller enterprises on such a large scale.

"'It's a watershed event,' Irving Wladawsky-Berger, vice president of Technology and Strategy for IBM's Server Group, told Reuters in an interview..."

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