IBM's Answer To Windows 7 Is Ubuntu Linux

An anonymous reader writes "It looks like IBM isn't much of a friend of Microsoft's anymore. Today IBM announced an extension of its Microsoft-Free PC effort together with Canonical Ubuntu Linux. This is the same thing that was announced a few weeks back for Africa (a program that began a year ago), and now it's available in the US. The big push is that IBM claims it will cost up to $2,000 for a business to move to Windows 7. They argue that moving to Linux is cheaper."

Comments

Re:It isn't just licensing costs...

[h4rr4r]

Why would I apologize that Apache talks about their issues and the IIS team hides them?

I think your the same guy as the one above, which does not really matter. The fact is he has been spreading FUD throughout this page and I called him out, so what?

Re:IBM's answer to Windows 3.1 was OS/2 Warp...

[Gary W. Longsine]

OS/2 Warp was made at a time when a significant part of those with the knowhow to make and support a evolving OS worked for Microsoft.

Not quite. Bone up on your operating system history a bit and you'll make fewer ridiculous statements like that one. Start here: OS/2. At that time, there were lots of people at lots of companies who had experience making and supporting evolving operating systems. Almost none of those people worked for Microsoft, as they were a fledgling wannabe that had experience making a really killer business deal, and then milking DOS for all it was worth. The disaster that the evolving Windows product would become had only just begun. That disaster was almost entirely due to the fact that Microsoft didn't have a corporate culture that led to the reliable production of successive generations of increasingly better operating systems. They were insular. They preferred to hire inexperienced people who wouldn't tell them how to do things better, and brainwashed them into thinking they were the best. Should I go on?