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New Aberdeen Study Details Pros and Cons of IBM's Linux Products and Strategy

The Aberdeen group has released some details of a recent study into the pros and cons of IBM's Linux products and strategy.
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New Aberdeen Study Details Pros and Cons of IBM's Linux Products and Strategy

Posted Dec 6, 2002 0:49 UTC (Fri) by josh_stern (guest, #4868) [Link]

My comment is for LWN staff: if IBM doesn't have a corporate
subscrition, pointing out that they need one to reply to this article
would be a good sales pitch!

New Aberdeen Study Details Pros and Cons of IBM's Linux Products and Strategy

Posted Dec 6, 2002 21:29 UTC (Fri) by ejratl (subscriber, #4925) [Link]

IBM does have a subscription.

New Aberdeen Study Details Pros and Cons of IBM's Linux Products and Strategy

Posted Dec 9, 2002 16:22 UTC (Mon) by whitleych (guest, #6866) [Link]

It appears that this study is inconsistant with it's stated goals. In looking at cross-platform linux, where does the first item
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The large cost to IBM and its customers of supporting development and marketing efforts across four hardware platforms and several operating systems - not
to mention a matrix of Linux distributions." fit in? Across operating systems??? If it's all linux, it's all the same OS is it not? Perhaps they meant operating environment? Or architecture?
CHW

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