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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." "

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  1. news denied by baxterux · · Score: 5, Informative

    heise a german news site has just published an articles saying IBM denied the claims http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/70532

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  2. IBM starts using IBM Workplace by digitaldc · · Score: 5, Informative

    All I can say is, it's about time!

    http://www-142.ibm.com/software/workplace/products /product5.nsf/wdocs/workplaceoverview

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  3. Actually... by Svartalf · · Score: 5, Informative

    I believe this was said in terms of thier internal machines, not the deliverables.

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  4. Re:Ridiculous by jb.hl.com · · Score: 4, Informative

    Did you RTFA? Or even TFS (the fucking summary)?

    This is about INTERNAL desktops. i.e, IBM's employees will mostly be using Linux systems to do their day to day work. They can still recommend Windows to clients.

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  5. Re:I wish we had an audio recording... by A+beautiful+mind · · Score: 5, Informative

    But there is video.

    Or this one in case the first is overloaded.

    (Groklaw article where I took the links from is here.)

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  6. Re:Redhat? by 10Ghz · · Score: 3, Informative

    "SuSE is redhat based" is it, really? Or do you think that since SUSE uses RPM's, it's "based on Red Hat"?

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  7. Next Notes client is Eclipse-based by mccalli · · Score: 4, Informative
    stuck with notes? i was hoping that would mean a native linux version of notes.

    As I understand it, the next Notes client will be an Eclipse-platform rich client. Here's an article about it

    Cheers,
    Ian

  8. Funny you should say that... by wild_berry · · Score: 5, Informative
    Funny you should say that: I saw Ross Burton write on his blog (via the Debian blog planet) of a Groklaw post about Linux Forum Day 2, from which Mr Burton quotes:
    At the end of the presentation, Andreas Pleschek revealed that the laptop he used for the presentation was running a pre-release of their new platform, the Open Client. It is actually a Red Hat work station with IBM's new Workplace Client, which is built in Java on top of Eclipse. Because of Eclipse, it runs on both Linux and Windows, and they have been able to reuse the C++ code in Lotus Notes for Windows to run it natively on Linux via Eclipse. Internally in IBM, for years, they have had a need to run Lotus Notes on Linux, and now they can. And they will offer it to their customers. Workplace uses Lotus Notes for mail, calendar, etc. and Firefox as their browser. For an office suite, they use OpenOffice.org.


    It seems that the new IBM thing, Workplace has Notes running natively.
  9. Re:Redhat? by Exter-C · · Score: 4, Informative

    Actually SuSe was slackware based originally. I believe SuSe started as a german translation of Slackware and has since grown from there. There is more information on any of the History of SuSe web pages. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suse

  10. Re:Ugh... Windows Media... by Pantero+Blanco · · Score: 5, Informative

    Close to 100% of desktops will play .mpgs, and they'll work on all major platforms with ease. You don't have to use "non-standard" codecs.

    The fact that it was a Linux-related event makes it even more ridiculous that they'd choose .wmv...It's like having an alternative browser site that won't render in Firefox unless you tweak thirty options.

  11. Re:Redhat? by kimvette · · Score: 3, Informative

    Flamebait?

    I invite you to check out http://www.centos.org/

    CentOS is an Enterprise-class Linux Distribution derived from sources freely provided to the public by a prominent North American Enterprise Linux vendor. CentOS conforms fully with the upstream vendors redistribution policy and aims to be 100% binary compatible. (CentOS mainly changes packages to remove upstream vendor branding and artwork.) CentOS is free. CentOS is now accepting donations via PayPal, please click the button for more information.

    Also check out:

    http://www.centos.org/modules/tinycontent/index.ph p?id=2

    DeadRat legal made them change command line utility names (e.g., if it was redhat-do-foo they had to rename it to bar-do-foo), remove any reference to RedHat from the home page, and so forth. CentOS IS RHEL minus the trademarks.

    Focus on modding up, not down, especially when someone is posting the truth. Sheesh.

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