Could Linux dethrone the software king? (Financial Times)

[Posted January 22, 2003 by corbet]

The Finanical Times has a lengthy article on the business of Linux. "While HP leads in the Linux business, claiming the free software drove sales of computer systems worth $2bn last year, IBM is probably the best-placed to benefit from this trend - hence its enthusiastic embrace of Linux. With the world's biggest IT services arm and a software business based on middleware - programs that sit between an operating system and the different software applications - Big Blue has ample incentive to reshape the corporate computing business in its own image." (Thanks to Richard Jones).

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