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Red Hat, IBM Expand Linux Deal

Posted by Hemos on Monday September 16, 2002 @12:00AM from the growing-out-the-bidness dept.

jukal writes "From ZDNet "Red Hat and IBM have expanded a partnership, with Red Hat bringing its top-end version of Linux to all four of IBM's server lines and with IBM's services and software divisions supporting Red Hat's software. "" The NYTimes also has a version of the story, as does the News-Observer.

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Re:Neat and everything, but by autocracy · 2002-09-16 00:23 · Score: 4, Informative

RedHat produces several variations of its Linux distribution. You're most likely familiar with the one priced at $30 you can download basically free. The cost of some editions, however, reaches $2500. The version IBM is using retails for $800 I think (could be more). See it yourself at http://www.redhat.com/apps/commerce/software.html

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deal for profit by jsse · 2002-09-16 01:46 · Score: 2, Informative

It's not surprising. the $1 billion spent on Linux last year has been entirely recouped at the beginning of this year. This is a big deal in this economy.