On Wed, 12 Nov 2003, Jim Elliott wrote: > Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2003 02:40:41 EST > From: Jim Elliott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: Linux on 390 Port <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Linux ready for the desktop: IBM > > > http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/33923.html > > > Can those working for IBM confirm that IBM believes this? I would > > find it much more convicing if I heard that IBM is using it thus, > > best if it's the preferred desktop. > > Well I don't know what you want us to confirm. Sam's comments as > reported are correct. IBM Global Services has had a Linux desktop > offering in conjunction with Ximian for several months now. > > IBM has an internal Linux image for desktops (in additions to our > Windows 2000 and Windows XP images) which we expect to have 30,000 > users of by YE (or approximately 10% of our desktop users).
That is the kind of thing I was hoping someone would say (though I didn't really expect it!). Saying, "Linux is ready for the desktop," is one thing, but "Linux is ready for the desktop _and we're using it_" are very different statements. I'm sure john.lettice at theregister.co.uk would like to hear that IBM is actually using it on the desktop, together with anything else you can say, for example, what IBM people are doing that is maybe newsworthy, is it used in preference to Windows? AIX? etc. > > IBM, in conjunction with the OSDL, will be promoting Linux on the > desktop in 2004. With the announcement today of IBM Corporate Linux > (our new business unit for Linux) was the announcement of some > additional focus areas for Linux including: "The Linux Client - the > exciting new possibilities of office applications running on Linux". > > Jim > -- Cheers John. Join the "Linux Support by Small Businesses" list at http://mail.computerdatasafe.com.au/mailman/listinfo/lssb Copyright John Summerfield. Reproduction prohibited.
