[ Thanks to Jason
Greenwood for this link. ]
“For industry giant IBM Corp., supporting the adoption of Linux,
the open source operating system, in the enterprise space is a
business decision.“‘In many places, IBM is acknowledged as one of the reasons
Linux has achieved legitimacy,’ said Chris Pratt, manager, eServer
Strategic Initiatives, at IBM. ‘From an IBM perspective, supporting
Linux is a business, rather than a technology, decision, based on a
business case. It has to show a return. We make money with Linux,
and we save money by using Linux…'”