The text of the article has been changed. That's good, I guess, but it might have been nice if they had made a note of the change.
Mark Post -----Original Message----- From: Abdullah Al-humaid [mailto:aahumaid@;yahoo.com] Sent: Wednesday, October 23, 2002 9:16 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: CNET News: Commentary: Linux's Foot in the Door Intresting because I was also trying to find the "has signed an exclusive deal.." in the article but did not see it. --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Interesting. Either you misread or the PR bunnies > already got to it... > my vote is for the latter. > It now reads: "Red Hat, which did not join the > UnitedLinux effort, has > signed a deal with IBM to be a strategic provider of > Linux-based solutions." > > ~ Daniel > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >Interesting statement: > >"Red Hat, ...has signed an exclusive deal with IBM > to be its sole provider > >of Linux-based solutions." I wonder if IBM knows > that? > > > >Mark Post > > > >-----Original Message----- > >From: Ferguson, Neale > [mailto:Neale.Ferguson@;SoftwareAG-USA.com] > >Sent: Tuesday, October 22, 2002 2:05 PM > >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Subject: CNET News: Commentary: Linux's Foot in the > Door > > > > > >See: > "http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2002-10-22-009-26-OP-BZ"; > > > >"Long thought of as a fledgling operating system, > Linux is now ready for > >prime time. CIOs have many new reasons to be > confident that they'll get > >quality Linux support from their largest > application vendors and systems > >integrators. > > > >"Forrester recently spoke with directors at > Sapient, Accenture, IBM and > >Red Hat who are responsible for Linux services and > products. They gave us > >examples of how Linux continues to build momentum. > Most recently, the open > >source operating system has achieved the following: > > > >* "Received the seal of approval from big > companies. Amazon.com, Verizon > >and E*Trade Group have all publicly disclosed their > support for Linux in > >the past year. Amazon, in particular, has a case > study on Red Hat's Web > >site touting the more than $10 million cost savings > in hardware that Amazon > >attained by moving its shopping site from > proprietary Unix servers to > >cheaper Pentium-based systems that run Linux..." > > __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Y! Web Hosting - Let the expert host your web site http://webhosting.yahoo.com/
