IBM Germany Leaving Vista for Linux

UltimaGuy writes "During a presentation on IBM's involvement with Open Source, Andreas Pleschek from IBM in Stuttgart, Germany, who heads open source and Linux technical sales across North East Europe for IBM made a very interesting statement..."Andreas Pleschek also told that IBM has cancelled their contract with Microsoft as of October this year. That means that IBM will not use Windows Vista for their desktops. Beginning from July, IBM employees will begin using IBM Workplace on their new, Red Hat-based platform. Not all at once - some will keep using their present Windows versions for a while. But none will upgrade to Vista." "

Comments

Re:Lets hope they document the process

[duffbeer703]

I'd be curious too. I've been playing with OpenOffice, and frankly, it sucks. Its slow and is more bloated than Office.

Re:Redhat?

[kimvette]

I agree - I hate DeadRat^H^H^H^H^H^H^HRedHat Linux and am looking forward to the day when RedHat dies or gets bought out.

I'll take SuSE, Mandriva, kubuntu, Debian, or Slackware long before I choose DeadRat Linux.

Centos - RedHat minus the obscene licensing and RedHat's anti-OSS attitude (e.g., the WhiteBoxLinux/CentOS folks can't even mention their product is based on DeadRat because of RedHat's obnoxious legal department - here's a hint: crediting the authors of admin tools is actually REQUIRED by the license you release it on, so forcing free/free/free distros to not mention RedHat by name is idiotic. Mentioning that it is based on RedHat sources is NOT trademark infringement, dumbasses.) is a much better choice for those who need RedHat. Really, the real reason I hate RedHat is they had a strong desktop market (well, strong as far as Linux distributions go) back in the day, and then they suddenly canned the desktop version and pushed desktop users to their notoriously unstable Fedora project.

I like Novell and SuSE Linux much better because Novell is targeting all verticals, and the admin gui is much better thought out (for those who choose GUIs anyhow) than RedHat. YaST may be slow, but at least it WORKS and the organization is logical and not strewn all over the place. Novell's licensing is also much more reasonable, even for the upmarket versions of the distributions.

No offense intended to any users out there, just the RedHat folks.