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IBM, Linux Dealers Seize Chance to Market 'Microsoft-Free' Desktop

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The slow adoption of Vista is giving IBM and Linux distributors an opportunity to convince enterprises that there are good desktop software alternatives to Windows. IBM, Canonical, Novell and Red Hat will work with hardware makers to market custom-designed PCs preloaded with Linux and Lotus word processing and collaboration software.

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linux software availability pegasus 4 1,700 Sep 26, 2008 5:43 PM
I am all for this initiative, but... jacog 3 1,794 Aug 7, 2008 9:04 AM

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