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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: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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  5. 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.
  6. 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.