Hi ! .............More than two decades ago, IBM, had changed the fortune of a then unknown company-Microsoft, by awarding it a contract to develop an OS for IBM PC. But this time around IBM plans to bring out a "Microsoft-free" desktop environment. Working towards this goal IBM along with Virtual Bridges and Canonical has launched a Linux-based virtual desktop solution. This desktop solution is designed to help corporate save a lot of money compared to Microsoft-desktop software..................
http://www.enterpriser.in/India/Know_It/IBM_Launches_Microsoft-free_Desktops/551-96092-448.html These solutions existed before but for the first time three FOSS vendors with mixed business models have teamed up to come up with a solution to offer a cost effective green solution helping corporates to get out of the clutches of Microsoft. IBM name lends credibility to the whole thing ! It will be interesting to see how corporates look at this. It simply wont matter what kind of hardware you have - single core or dual core or a portable device , what OS you have -it could be Linux , windows or Solaris or whatever ! It is about time ! Cheers Varadarajan _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe <password> <address>" in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
