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IBM Invests $200M In Linux In Asia-Pacific
Al writes: "Linuxworld Australia is reporting that IBM are set to invest US$200 million over the next four years in the creation of seven Linux developer centres and four Linux competency centres across the region. IBM will deploy Linux experts and all IBM platforms at these centres to liase with software developers, be they established or startups. This will provide a huge boost in the porting and creation of native Linux applications within the region. The article is here."
A million here, a million there, and pretty soon you're talking about some real money. IBM seems to be grinning a big mona-lisa-penguin grin lately, which if nothing else is cool to point out to your boss / I.T. manager come requisition time. To paraphrase, very few people have ever gotten fired for buying Big Blue;)
I see huge amounts of money being invested in linux in 2000, but I can't seem to point at any single thing that has been accomplished. Please someone point at the tangible output of all this money so far, I'd love to be proven wrong.
Why "Racist" ? ;-)
You don't even look like you try to understand somebody you don't know so, you do "sound" racist.
Why "Shit" ?
You use such a violent language to just vomit what you can't explain.
Let me reformulate, instead of accusing me in such an idiot manner.
Bringing Free Software to China will also bring mentalities to a new era.
It will help the civilian to increase their technological knowledge, thus opening them to the joy of Internet communication. (of course, joy is not adapted in your case)
I also think (maybe too implicitly for the paranoids) that the Tibet problem is, of course, due to governmental policies rather than the civilians themselves.
Now, because they accept these contacts with external democracies and multinational which act here as diplomats, this implicitely sound like they slowly open themselves to the rest of the world until they can't refuse to soften their presence in Tibet.
I believe it will happen as I believe there are people of good will everywhere.
This is just a question of time, Chinese representatives know that their civilization is too intransigent to keep as advanced as they used to be.
BTW: You call me a racist but you have not tasted my Pekinese Duck... Lecker
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I'm moving to Japan in December, it'd be nice if I could get a Linux job there.
"Reactionaries must be deprived of the right to voice their opinions; only the people have that right." - Mao
> those same companies hope to be in the dominant
> proprietary vendor position.
IBM have already been there and done that. And look what happened to their dominance. They don't want to go back and do it all again.
And look what is happening to Microsoft as a result of their dominance.
Large companies are beginning to learn that increasing numbers of their customers don't want them controlling the markets.
> IBM's 'commitment' to Linux can be summed up as:
> "Thanks for the kernel!"
What is more important IMO than their commitment to Linux (the kernel) is their commitment to open source. And if you think they are not committed in that area you haven't been reading much IBM related press lately. (some clues: Gnome foundation, AFS, sash, linux s/390, XFS, jikes, etc etc...)
> Companies will use Linux as long as it is
> beneficial to them,
If its beneficial to their customers (or for whatever reason, their customers want it) then in the long run it is beneficial to them also.
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In at least two Asia-Pacific companies that I have personal contact with, the IT people will get fired if they use NON open-sourced OS in the company's computers.
Those two companies are not huge conglomerates, but they _are_ expanding.
With the availability of Linux in mainframe (from IBM) and with all the already available Linux distributions running in all sorts of workstations and such, I don't see any limit for those two Asia-Pacific companies in applying their current rules of using only open-sourced OS in their computers, for by the time these companies have expanded that they need to use mainframe (or RS-6000 and/or AS/400 series of workhorses) there will be options ready for them.
Congrats to all for making this possible.
Muchas Gracias, Señor Edward Snowden !
...for buying OS/2?
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The page at mxlinux.org calls Linus Linux. I'm sure he doesn't like that. If that is your page, you should fix it.
"They want me to be a whore!" -- Linux Torvalds. "
http://www.mslinux.org/
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As IBM puts more and more energy into promoting Linux, it will be interesting to watch how much credibility it lends to Linux as a whole.
As someone responsible for a mission critical deployment of many servers, I have been a strong Sun supporter -- not because they had the best bang for the buck, but because they have a true enterprise class operation. I can have Sun on-site in 2 hours if something goes wrong.
When we are faced with a potential Fortune 500 customer's RFP, answering that the platform is completely Sun based has *weight*. As silly as it may be, customers have confidence in buzzwords, and Sun rarely fails to impress. That, combined with 10+ Solaris Exxxx boxes with 300+ days of uptime, makes it hard to look elsewhere.
If IBM can bring the same level of support, "recognition", and stability / quality assurance to the Linux market, there are truly great things ahead for Linux.
I sure hope so, because the technology behind Linux is world class, even if the world doesn't know yet. Much like AMD has done to Intel, another strong platform will increase competition and ultimately make both systems better, to the benefit of all.
-SpookyFish