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[Bradly McConnell]

Greetings All,

Well I just wanted to poll the group and see if anyone has an opinion
about Sam Palmisano or Lous Gerstner of IBM, mainly focusing on Sam. 
Since he has been the driving force for IBM's move toward Linux, I
just wanted to see what you guys have to say.

I'm writing a paper on his main initiatives that are in place in an
attempt to bring IBM back in good favor.  I didn't pick the paper, but
I do see it as a slight opportunity to play Linux advocate to a very
M$ embedded school.  Which that is an issue upon itself, and I'm
transferring to another school for Fall '05.  They won't even
acknowledge the existance of Firefox, OpenOffice, or anything "not
Microsoft" other than SPSS statistics software, which of course is
another very high dollar suite.

What I'm mainly looking for is the general attitude towards IBM from
the Linux/Open Source community with their recent changes focusing on
services and software instead of big clunky iron.


Brad