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Personally, I think IBM still needs to rethink it does business, but given that they are looking into and embracing Linux, I somehow think they are on the right track. Also, I do know that Hewlett Packard did have its own Linux distribution at one time. However, I can not seem to track it down. It would be interesting to see what it looked like. Pax, Christopher ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bradly McConnell" <bradly.mcconnell at gmail.com> To: "A Christian virtual Free Software and Linux Users Group." <christiansource at ofb.biz> Subject: [CS-FSLUG] Comments on Sam Palmisano of IBM Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2005 18:15:06 -0500 > > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > ChristianSource FSLUG mailing list > Christiansource at ofb.biz > http://cs.uninetsolutions.com Linux Counter User: #350477 http://www.counter.li.org -- _______________________________________________ Find what you are looking for with the Lycos Yellow Pages http://r.lycos.com/r/yp_emailfooter/http://yellowpages.lycos.com/default.asp?SRC=lycos10
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