Jack Schofield 

IBM is fighting hard to stop Linux

There's a funny piece in Forbes about IBM, which, it says, advertises its support for Linux, motherhood and apple pie but fights "tooth and nail" to stop companies from moving to Linux -- if they are using IBM's high-priced AIX version of Unix. Playing the 'opener than thou' card, Martin Fink, vice president of Linux at Hewlett-Packard, says: ""We're talking to [a company] about moving to Linux, and IBM is going out of its way to demonstrate why Linux is not ready for their environment. It's really twisted. IBM is doing all this marketing around Linux, and here I am competing against IBM using Linux, and IBM is using AIX."
  
  


There's a funny piece in Forbes about IBM, which, it says, advertises its support for Linux, motherhood and apple pie but fights "tooth and nail" to stop companies from moving to Linux -- if they are using IBM's high-priced AIX version of Unix. Playing the 'opener than thou' card, Martin Fink, vice president of Linux at Hewlett-Packard, says: ""We're talking to [a company] about moving to Linux, and IBM is going out of its way to demonstrate why Linux is not ready for their environment. It's really twisted. IBM is doing all this marketing around Linux, and here I am competing against IBM using Linux, and IBM is using AIX."

 

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