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IBM Germany Leaving Vista for Linux

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the that-just-seems-strange dept.

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." "

3 of 351 comments (clear)

  1. Somewhere in Redmond... by One+Louder · · Score: 5, Funny
    ...the chairs start flying.

    Won't somebody at IBM please think of the chairs?

  2. Re:news denied by node+3 · · Score: 5, Funny

    I checked the site, but it was in German.

    Laut Berichten über das LinuxForum in Dänemark ...

    It appears that Laut Berichten announced at LinuxForum in Denmark that they are switching to Super DOS.

    I hope that clears things up.

  3. Cancelled MS contracts? by pfaut · · Score: 5, Funny

    Why do I sense that this will spawn the mother of all BSA audits?