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How committed is IBM to the open-source movement? Officially, IBM is the world's loudest promoter of open-source software, spending millions to run Linux advertisements and fund an open-source development lab, and devoting hundreds of its own programmers to cranking out open-source code. So it is strange, rivals say, that in the field, IBM's sales reps are battling to keep some customers from moving to Linux and other open-source programs--especially customers currently using AIX, IBM's pricey Unix-based operating system.

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Void_Main ·
Forbes has had a lot of anti-Linux articles over the last year. I'm not saying this is one of them but both IBM and HP are out to make as much money as they can for their share holders so it's natural for them to be competing against each other. Since it's coming from Forbes I would be willing to bet that we're not hearing the entire story.

Daniel Lyons

bstadil ·
Maybe not in Brown's and Didio's league but this idiot was the author of the "What SCO Wants, SCO Gets" article a year ago.

Saviour this last comment in the article. "These guys in Utah are no dummies. The crunchies in the Linux community should be paying more attention."

I guess he was partly right. The Linux folks started to pay attention. Lastly, If you notice the article is based on HP's view of IBM. so hardly a ringing endorcement. Why shouldn't IBM support and promote AIX at accounts that is already using it. The latest AIX is called L5, by the way where the L stands for Linux, meaning that you can run Linux binaries directly. That way you can continue with AIX, or Convert at your own pace with a perfect mixed environment. Seems like a good idea to me.

Lastly check out HP's OpenVMS / Itanium effort to get a crash course in how not to do things.

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