[CS-FSLUG] Comments on Sam Palmisano of IBM

[Christopher Rose]

Personally, I think IBM still needs to rethink it does business, but given that they are looking into and embracing Linux, I somehow think they are on the right track. Also, I do know that Hewlett Packard did have its own Linux distribution at one time. However, I can not seem to track it down. It would be interesting to see what it looked like.

Pax,
Christopher


----- Original Message -----
From: "Bradly McConnell" <bradly.mcconnell at gmail.com>
To: "A Christian virtual Free Software and Linux Users Group." <christiansource at ofb.biz>
Subject: [CS-FSLUG] Comments on Sam Palmisano of IBM
Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2005 18:15:06 -0500

> 
> Greetings All,
> 
> Well I just wanted to poll the group and see if anyone has an opinion
> about Sam Palmisano or Lous Gerstner of IBM, mainly focusing on Sam.
> Since he has been the driving force for IBM's move toward Linux, I
> just wanted to see what you guys have to say.
> 
> I'm writing a paper on his main initiatives that are in place in an
> attempt to bring IBM back in good favor.  I didn't pick the paper, but
> I do see it as a slight opportunity to play Linux advocate to a very
> M$ embedded school.  Which that is an issue upon itself, and I'm
> transferring to another school for Fall '05.  They won't even
> acknowledge the existance of Firefox, OpenOffice, or anything "not
> Microsoft" other than SPSS statistics software, which of course is
> another very high dollar suite.
> 
> What I'm mainly looking for is the general attitude towards IBM from
> the Linux/Open Source community with their recent changes focusing on
> services and software instead of big clunky iron.
> 
> 
> Brad
> 
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