IBM Aims To Help Linux, Apple PCs Battle Windows Machines


"By Reuters ,      13 February 2007 10:19 AEST     
IBM will offer an open desktop software system for businesses that puts the cost of managing Apple or Linux computers on a more equal footing with Microsoft's Windows software."


"IBM has said it will offer an open desktop software system for businesses that puts the cost of managing Apple or Linux computers on a more equal footing with Microsoft's Windows software, improving the economics of Windows alternatives.

The product - which the company calls its "Open Client Offering" - pulls together software IBM has developed in-house and with partners Novell and Red Hat to answer questions over the cost-effectiveness of managing Linux or Apple desktop PCs alongside Windows PCs.

IBM said the new software makes it feasible for big businesses to offer their employees a choice of running Windows, Linux or Apple Macintosh software on desktop PCs, using the same underlying software code. This cuts the costs of managing Linux or Apple relative to Windows."

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Posted: Tue - February 13, 2007 at 07:21 AM          

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